[Haskell-cafe] upgrading Text.Printf

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 03:38:50PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> 
> I am using Text.Printf (package base, ghc-6.6.1) and am missing %X
> formatting. Checking out the darcs repo of the base package I see that it
> has already been added there. Is there any way to upgrade to the latest
> version while keeping ghc-6.6.1? I keep hearing Bulat saying that this is
> not possible, but I wanted to check anyway. Is there, perhaps, a separate
> package that contains (a newer version of) Text.Printf?

The easiest way is to grab a copy of the module from
    http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/base/Text/Printf.hs
and either put it in your program directly, or rename it and put it in a
package.


Thanks
Ian