Data.Map in 6.8.1

[Don Stewart]

bulat.ziganshin:
> Hello Serge,
> 
> Saturday, September 29, 2007, 7:38:32 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Now,       make configure
> > reports
> 
> >  runghc Setup.hs configure --ghc
> > --prefix=/home/mechvel/dm/1.06/dm/source/inst
> >  Configuring dumatel-1.6...
> 
> > In 6.6.1, the report of  runhaskell  looked better, it wrote on the 
> > screen about  ghc  found in such and such place, and so on. 
> > Where to see this new report in a more detail?
> 
> while GHC developers sleeping/kissing/..., i will try to help you :)
> 
> first, it's entirely Cabal-related stuff. Setup.hs just runs cabal
> routines. in previous Cabal versions, "setup configure" printed a large
> amount of info about various compiling tools found. it was
> disappointing for new users especially when Cabal printed what he
> doesn't found some rather odd tools (which actually not required to
> build modern software). it seems that Cabal developers accepted
> suggestions to disable this report by default. sorry, i don't know how
> to enable it again, but believe that there is some way to do it. you
> should inspect Cabal docs, may be "runghc Setup.hs configure --help"
> or "runghc Setup.hs --help" will help

    runhaskell Setup.hs configure -v

will reenable verbose checking.

> 
> > Dumatel/Prelude5.hs:28:17:
> >     Could not find module `Data.Map':
> >       it is a member of package containers-0.1, which is hidden
> 
> > Should I change something in  dm.cabal ?
> > For example, it contains the line
> 
> >   build-depends:   base, haskell98
> 
> add "containers" here :)  in the 6.8, base lib was split to many
> smaller ones
> 
> > Where are docs on  ghc-6.8.1 (in particular, release notes) ?
> 
> it is not yet released :)))
> 
> but it's an chicken-and-egg problem and you, developers that try to
> ensure that 6.8 is ok with their problems, may ask Ian to prepare
> [premature version of release notes which will help to port programs.
> or we can start wiki page to help yourself, in hope that Ian will
> merge it contents in final release notes
> 

how to port is already on a page:

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages

once this is filled out, it could be in the release notes.

-- Don