On 07/11/2012 22:33, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de > <mailto:k...@outback.escape.de>> wrote: > > Small safety hint for distributors: the haskell-platform.cabal file > mandates network == 2.3.1.0 and HTTP == 4000.2.5, but the latter > by default depends on network >= 2.4 && < 2.5. So if you want to > avoid to include the same package in different versions (which at > least OpenBSD does), you'll have to configure HTTP with -fnetwork23 > (which changes the dependency to network < 2.4). > > > I think HTTP can solve this in a better way, instead of using > > #ifdef NETWORK23 > uriDefaultTo a b = maybe a id (a `relativeTo` b) > #else > uriDefaultTo a b = a `relativeTo` b > #endif > > it could use > > #ifdef MIN_VERSION_network(2,4,0) > uriDefaultTo a b = a `relativeTo` b > #else > uriDefaultTo a b = maybe a id (a `relativeTo` b) > #endif > > That way it will compile on both old and new network versions without > any user interventions (including cabal flag).
This has already been changed in the most recent HTTP version, but that's not in the platform. Ganesh _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
