[Haskell-cafe] Failing to install hxt

[Don Stewart]

haskell:
> Hi guys,
> 
> i have some troubles to install hxt.
> 
> My first naive attempt "cabal install hxt" fails with
> "cabal: cannot configure hxt-8.5.0. It requires base >=4.2 && <5".
> 
> I guess that's because i use ghc 6.10.4, since
> "base-4.2.0.0" depends on "integer-simple" which seems to only come with ghc
> 6.12.

Looks like the author of hxt has decided to support 6.12 only, at the
moment.

    base (>=4.2 && <5)

Ensures this will only work on the 6.12 series of compilers.

-- Don