Re: preferred-versions and hackage index

2008-10-09 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 01:28:31PM -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote: > What needs to happen next is that these preferences be included into the > hackage index that cabal-install and other clients download. This should > be completely backwards compatible. The format allows for adding other > files with

preferred-versions and hackage index

2008-10-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
Hi Ross, As part of the plan for keeping most of hackage working with ghc-6.10 I've implemented a feature in cabal-install to allow soft version constraints. This is a general feature I've wanted for some time but it also helps with the base 3 / 4 issue. The basic idea is that globally we make a