[Haskell-cafe] Compiler constraints in cabal

[Reiner Pope]

Ah, I hadn't thought of that. But doesn't the version of GHC change
much more often than the version of base does?

Reiner

On 6 November 2010 03:49, Ozgur Akgun <ozgurakgun at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, the way to do this is putting constraints on the base package.
>
> On 5 November 2010 14:59, Reiner Pope <reiner.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a library, hmatrix-static, on Hackage. Version 0.3 (the current
>> version) compiles with ghc-6.12.
>>
>> Let's say I want to upgrade my library using new features in ghc-7.0,
>> and then release these upgrades as version 0.4. Is there any way to
>> state in my cabal file that this new version will no longer compile
>> under ghc-6.12? The reason I would like to state this is so that a
>> user with ghc-6.12 can do 'cabal install hmatrix-static' (or do a
>> cabal install of a program depending on hmatrix-static) and see that
>> cabal will install version 0.3 rather than attempt to install version
>> 0.4 and fail.
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> Reiner
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