[Haskell-cafe] Hackage and GHC 6.8

[Neil Davies]

Ah,

this begins to answer my question: there isn't really a plan....

I would have thought that he first step is to be able to distinguish
which of the hackage packages "compile" under 6.8 - some annotation to
the hackage DB? Secondly, is there a dependency graph of the stuff on
hackage anywhere? That would identify which order to change packages
in (for example the cabal-install package is dependent on exactly one
version of the HTTP library). We need to size the problem.

Nei



On 09/09/2007, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
>