[reactive] Version conflicts despite hiding

[Creighton Hogg]

So this is happening when people do cabal-install?
I'm rather surprised it doesn't run through the installed libraries
that it knows about and checks if they have a dependency on an updated
package, recompiling if they do.

2008/12/17 Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net>:
> I'd like to improve my release process to avoid problems like this.  I could
> re-release reactive-glut & reactive-fieldtrip whenever there's a new
> reactive release, and re-release reactive-fieldtrip whenever there's a new
> reactive-glut.  While manageable for me, other people who build on any of
> these libraries--or any library--will have the same problem.  I wonder
> what's causing the fragility here.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>    - Conal
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Patai Gergely <patai_gergely at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>>
>> > However, when I try to compile Tetris or load it into ghci, it says that
>> > it can't match 'UI' (expected) with
>> > 'reactive-glut-0.1.4:FRP.Reactive.GLUT.UI.UI' (inferred) in dropPiece,
>> > and I've no idea where it is getting the latter from. There are no
>> > leftover .hi files or anything else in reach. Is reactive-fieldtrip a
>> > possible culprit?
>> Yep, that was it. I reinstalled reactive-fieldtrip, and it works again.
>>
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