[Haskell-beginners] Cabal problems

[Sergey Bushnyak]

On 01/10/2013 04:37 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Sergey Bushnyak 
> <sergey.bushnyak at sigrlami.eu <mailto:sergey.bushnyak at sigrlami.eu>> wrote:
>
>     Isn't it better to send patch with corrections to maintainer?
>
>
> It is, but if the packages haven't been updated for new-style 
> exceptions by now, they're probably effectively unmaintained.  Do you 
> want to take over maintainership?
>
> -- 
> brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates
> allbery.b at gmail.com <mailto:allbery.b at gmail.com> 
> ballbery at sinenomine.net <mailto:ballbery at sinenomine.net>
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I don't want to take over maintainership, area of my interest is 
slightly different and not covering games at all. Recently, I stumbled 
at this kind of problem  by myself. I wrote to maintainer, submit patch 
and it's work now for new ghc.

The thing we should talk here, that cabal shouldn't even show package in 
install list, that don't builds on users current compiler. This 
information can be seen at hackage, but there still a lot of work is 
going on new hackage, which would be more accurate continuous 
integration portal.

In this situation I always get sources and correct by myself. 
Maintainership policy is very controversial subject and discussed 
regularly in community.

-- 
Best regards,
Sergey Bushnyak

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