breakage with Cabal-1.6

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Oct 9 19:38:50 EDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 01:26 +0200, Alfonso Acosta wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> >      * ForSyDe-3.0
> >
> > Uses the copyDest field from CopyFlags. These record types now use an
> > equivalent of Maybe so they can be empty rather than always containing a
> > default value. It's useful, but also kind of annoying in places. It's an
> > easy fix.
> 
> If possible at all, what would be the best way to make it compatible
> with both versions of CopyFlags?

I don't think there's a way to make it work with Cabal-1.2, 1.4 and 1.6.
If you make it work with 1.6 it'll not work with 1.2. But it can work
with 1.4 and 1.6 at the same time, or with 1.2 and 1.4 at the same time.
Just not all three simultaneously.

Duncan



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