planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Oct 9 14:41:14 EDT 2008


duncan.coutts:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:47 -0500, Paulo Tanimoto wrote:
> > Hi Duncan,
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Duncan Coutts
> > <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:20 +0200, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Duncan Coutts
> > >> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > Right, you need the darcs version of cabal-install.
> > 
> > 
> > Just to be clear, what about the other dependencies?
> > 
> > 1. zlib: the package from hackage seems to work flawlessly.
> > 
> > 2. http: the one in hackage doesn't build [1], I'm using:
> > 
> >   $ darcs get --partial http://code.haskell.org/http/
> > 
> >   Is that what I should be doing?  I get those warnings about base [2].
> 
> This will be fixed by both a new point release of HTTP, but more
> generally this will be fixed by using the soft preferences which we'll
> include in the hackage index and which will be used by the upcomming
> cabal-install release.


And indeed, the new HTTP is out,

    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/HTTP-3001.1.3



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