On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think Ivan's point is: When we can be precise about dependencies we should > be. I agree that someone using the HP as a dependency might not realize > that Alex is part of that. Depending on the HP is a conservative > overapproximation. Once we have more precise information, even if redundant > in this case, I think it's appropriate to document it as such. The > alternative to that, is for Cabal to know what "HP-2011.1" implies in terms > of dependencies and to then be able to check for those things. As I far as Indeed, I think I definitely should have left the build-depends: alex in there, if for no other reason than that Cabal doesn't read my mailing-list post to know that Yi depends on the Haskell Platform. -- Jeff Wheeler Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
