[Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.10.1 and cabal[-install]

[Jason Dagit]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Coppin <
> andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> Jason Dagit wrote:
>>
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>>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Andrew Coppin <
>>> andrewcoppin at btinternet.com <mailto:andrewcoppin at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Duncan Coutts wrote:
>>>
>>>        The Cabal package provides the library. The cabal-install package
>>>        provides the 'cabal' command line tool.
>>>
>>>        The deprecated package you're thinking of is cabal-get or
>>>        cabal-setup.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Will Hackage one day provide a way to discover that one package
>>>    has been superceeded by another?
>>>
>>>    Currently you can see when a newer version of the exact same
>>>    package exists, but (for example) take a took at how many
>>>    gazillion database packages there are up there. Which ones are
>>>    active? Which ones are obsolete? How can I tell??
>>>
>>>
>>> This has come up before.  As you can see here:
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46764
>>>
>>> I think we just need someone (how about you!?) to start working on it.
>>>
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>> What do I need to do? Just obtain the Hackage source code and submit a
>> Darcs patch or something? Or is it harder than that?
>
>
> A darcs patch should work.  If you look in the thread I linked to you'll
> see this message by Thomas M. DuBuisson:
>

By copy and paste, my apologies:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/46773
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