Library version choosing of cabal sandbox build

Daniel Trstenjak daniel.trstenjak at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 07:42:45 UTC 2014


Hi Johan,

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 01:07:17PM +0200, Johan Tibell wrote:
> Cabal is allowed to use any version that fullfills the required bounds. It uses
> a heuristic the tends to prefer
> 
>  * installed
>  * newest
>  * other
> 
> in that order.

Just to make it clear, a cabal sandbox build does consider the installed
libraries in the user package database, right?


Greetings,
Daniel


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