[Haskell-cafe] Cabal dependency hell

[Jason Dagit]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-04-11 at 14:28 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
>
> > I've noticed another type of diamond dependency problem.  Suppose I
> > build and install Foo today and it depends on Bar 2.0.0.  In a week, I
> > install Bar 2.0.1.  Next I installed Baz that also depends on Bar, and
> > it gets Bar 2.0.1.  When I install a package that depends on Foo, Baz,
> > and possibly Bar, then cabal won't be able to figure out proper
> > dependencies because Foo needs one version of Bar and Baz needs a
> > different version.
>
> That's exactly the problem that cabal-install solves. It will rebuild
> one or the other of Foo and Baz so that the dependency on Bar is
> consistent.
>

Weird.  This has not been my experience.

Jason
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