[Haskell-cafe] plugins can not be installed in ghc 6.10.1

[Gwern Branwen]

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>
> Do really pluigins needs Cabal (>=1.4 && <1.5) ???
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cabal install plugins
> Resolving dependencies...
> cabal: dependencies conflict: ghc-6.10.1 requires Cabal ==1.6.0.1 however
> Cabal-1.6.0.1 was excluded because plugins-1.3.1 requires Cabal ==1.4.*
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Yes. Suppose you change the deps:

hunk ./plugins.cabal 42
-                          Cabal >= 1.4 && < 1.5,
+                          Cabal >= 1.4,

And then try to compile, you'll see (at least for me):

[ 3 of 16] Compiling System.Plugins.ParsePkgConfCabal (
src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs,
dist/build/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.o )

src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:287:34:
    Ambiguous occurrence `depends'
    It could refer to either
`Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.depends', imported from
Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo at
src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:8:0-39
                          or `Distribution.Package.depends', imported
from Distribution.Package at
src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:9:0-26

src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:300:36:
    Ambiguous occurrence `depends'
    It could refer to either
`Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo.depends', imported from
Distribution.InstalledPackageInfo at
src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:8:0-39
                          or `Distribution.Package.depends', imported
from Distribution.Package at
src/System/Plugins/ParsePkgConfCabal.hs:9:0-26

-- 
gwern