[Haskell-cafe] Base version on Hackage?

[Ross Paterson]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 06:46:24PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:47:23PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >> I'm not sure why building of my recently uploaded version of dataenc
> >> fails to build on Hackage[1].  Where can I find out what version of base
> >> is available on Hackage?
> >
> > The build client uses ghc 6.10.2 (including base 4.1.0.0).  I'm not sure
> > why base went up a major version number between minor releases of GHC.
> 
> Ah, that explains the failure to build.
> 
> Does your second comment mean that it's safe to put the version limits
> to ">= 4.0.0 && < 4.2"?

The upper bound will be fine now, but I don't know what version of base
will be released with GHC 6.10.3.  Shouldn't the lower bound be 4.0.0.0?