planning for ghc-6.10.1 and hackage

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:47 -0500, Paulo Tanimoto wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:28 AM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:20 +0200, Jean-Philippe Bernardy wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Duncan Coutts
> >> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Right, you need the darcs version of cabal-install.
> 
> 
> Just to be clear, what about the other dependencies?
> 
> 1. zlib: the package from hackage seems to work flawlessly.
> 
> 2. http: the one in hackage doesn't build [1], I'm using:
> 
>   $ darcs get --partial http://code.haskell.org/http/
> 
>   Is that what I should be doing?  I get those warnings about base [2].

This will be fixed by both a new point release of HTTP, but more
generally this will be fixed by using the soft preferences which we'll
include in the hackage index and which will be used by the upcomming
cabal-install release.

> 3. Cabal: should I use the one that comes with GHC or upgrade to the
> darcs version?

They're currently more or less the same.

Duncan