[Haskell-cafe] ANN: json-0.4.1

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 20:58 +0100, Bas van Dijk wrote:

> >    Could not find module `Data.Generics':
> >      it was found in multiple packages: base-3.0.3.0 syb
> > cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
> > json-0.4.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> > exit: ExitFailure 1
> 
> The standard solution for this is to add a cabal flag that controls
> wether to depend on base-4 or base-3:

Note that in future it will be even easier. As of Cabal-1.6 (which comes
with ghc-6.10 but works with older versions too) you can use CPP macros:

> #if MIN_VERSION_base(4,0,0)
> import Data.Data (Data)
> #else
> import Data.Generics (Data)
> #endif

and not have to do anything in the .cabal file.

Of course this does not really help you for base 3 / 4 because the only
point of doing that is to preserve compatibility with ghc-6.8 and
out-of-the-box ghc-6.8 comes with an older Cabal version and we
generally cannot expect all users to upgrade their Cabal version.

Duncan