Personally I think we need something akin to Ruby's `Gemfile.lock` mechanism (ideally directly integrated into Cabal).
Cheers, Simon On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:10:45AM +0200, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Hi Café: > > > > I created just now an issue in cabal-dev: > > > > https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues/101 > > > > When compiling old developments, I wish cabal-dev to install and build > dependencies that were available at a that time > > I don't know if there are alternatives to solving this issue. I think that > this is very useful and necessary, specially now when library updates are > increasingly frequent. > > Maybe this problem is already solved and I just don´t know (as is often the > case, for example when, in a sudden aha moment, I reinvented cabal-install > months after the release). That is the reason why I tell you about it here > in order to discuss it. > > motivation: > > I´m installing now an old soft development. Since many of my dependencies > were labeled with -any or with > , neither I neither cabal know which > library versions are the right ones. By taking into account a date > parameter, cabal-dev can figure out which libraries were the latest and the > right ones at that time. > -- > Alberto. > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe