version tags

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Fri May 9 13:45:34 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 18:03 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:12:06AM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > 
> > I'm planning on changing the equivalent of showVersion in Cabal to not
> > display the tags.
> 
> This sounds like it'll make for some very confusing behaviour
> differences, as people won't realise that they aren't using exactly the
> same package.

But otherwise we're making things like libHSfoo-1.0-blah.a (and in
tarballs and all sorts of places) and I have no confidence it all works
out correctly.

Duncan



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