[Haskell-cafe] Hackage and GHC 6.8

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 14:50 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi Neil,
> 
> > Given that GHC 6.8 is just around the corner and, given how it has
> > re-organised the libraries so that the dependencies in many (most/all)
> > the packages in the hackage DB are now not correct.
> >
> > Is there a plan of how to get hackage DB up to speed with GHC 6.8 ?
> 
> I think whatever we go with will be deeply painful. Especially given
> the switch to Cabal configurations comes at the same time, rather than
> before.

Cabal 1.2 is out now and supports configurations and current ghc:

http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html

Duncan