Can't upload a newish package

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sun Dec 30 05:10:49 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 20:09 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> I'm using ghc 6.8.2, and can't upload the LLVM bindings from
> http://darcs.serpentine.com/llvm/
> 
> Here's the error I get from "cabal-upload -v":
> 
>   line 41: Parse of field 'extensions' failed:
> 
> Unfortunately, it includes no further details.
> 
> And here's the extensions section from the .cabal file:
> 
>   extensions:
>       EmptyDataDecls
>       FlexibleInstances
>       ForeignFunctionInterface
>       GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving
>       TypeOperators
>       TypeSynonymInstances

The version of the Cabal lib on hackage needs updating to 1.2.3.0 which
has the new extensions introduced in ghc-6.8.x.

Duncan



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