[Haskell-beginners] Cabal problems

[Sergey Bushnyak]

On 01/10/2013 06:48 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sergey Bushnyak 
> <sergey.bushnyak at sigrlami.eu <mailto:sergey.bushnyak at sigrlami.eu>> wrote:
>
>>     Shu-thing.hs:4:27:
>>         Module
>>         `Control.Exception'
>>         does not export
>>         `Exception(ExitException)'
>>     cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>>     Shu-thing-1.1.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>     ExitFailure 1
>     What version of ghc and cabal are you using? shu-thing builds on
>     ghc-6.8 and failed on ghc-7.*. Package probably broken and need to
>     be updated, due to changes in other packages.
>
>
> The other package that changed is base; it's still using old-style 
> exceptions.  I thought someone was going to package up old-exceptions 
> and put it on hackage for backward compatibility, but I don't see it 
> there.  Same with the other package they tried to install.
>
> -- 
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Isn't it better to send patch with corrections to maintainer?

-- 
Best regards,
Sergey Bushnyak

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