Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's dependence mechanism can be more available

2011-10-15 Thread 吴兴博
...@haskell.org. -- Forwarded message -- From: Aur Saraf sonofli...@gmail.com To: 吴兴博 wux...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:47:27 +0200 Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's dependence mechanism can be more available That a package builds with a certain version of another

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal's dependence mechanism can be more available

2011-10-14 Thread Aur Saraf
That a package builds with a certain version of another package does not mean that the code is correct. I once had to maintain code that used CSV 0.0.0.1, and it turned out that in CSV-0.0.0.2 there wasn't a newline appended to the end of the string anymore (in the old version there was), so the

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal's dependence mechanism can be more available

2011-10-13 Thread 吴兴博
[[ My point is on cabal, but I had to give some examples. I'm very sorry for the authors of the packages listed below. ]] The story is : I was trying to install a package from hackage [holumbus-mapreduce]. I use ghc-7.2.1 and had a hard time to install the packages that depends on.