On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote:
> Johan Tibell wrote: > >> I don't know if shipping both Cabal 1.18 and 1.20 in > >> the HP will lead to problems. If so, I can backport > >> the cabal-install changes to 1.18. > > Mark Lentczner wrote: > > all's well... Johan back ported the changes > > So it's moot for this release. But in principle, what would > have been the problem with having the platform installers > ship with the 1.20 executable, or build the 1.20 executable > in a sandbox for installers that build it, and then still ship > with Cabal-1.18. in the libraries? > I don't think it's a problem, two different version of a package can happily coexist in a package DB after all. There's a theoretical diamond dependency problem if some other package in HP links against Cabal. I mostly backported the change to be conservative, as I couldn't foresee all possible issues.
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