[Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 20:49 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:

> > If you can get the search path right (ie to not look in the current dir)
> > then I expect it would also be possible to bootstrap using a
> > pre-existing Cabal library for hugs.
> 
> Unfortunately that won't work: runhugs always adds the directory
> containing the Main module to its search path for modules imported by
> Main, so that multi-module programs work.  This will be a problem for
> upgrading Cabal (only, I think).

Should be ok, Cabal is always supposed to be built with itself rather
than any pre-existing install.

Duncan