[Haskell-cafe] Compiler constraints in cabal

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 11/6/10 23:09 , wren ng thornton wrote:
> On 11/6/10 6:20 AM, Reiner Pope wrote:
>> I was aware of this condition, but I'm not precisely sure it addresses
>> my requirements. When you run "cabal install some-package", cabal
>> reads all version constraints listed in the "build-depends" field, and
>> chooses which versions of which packages to download from Hackage in
>> order to satisfy these constraints.
>>
>> I want to expose my dependency on a particular version of ghc to
>> cabal's constraint satisfier. The end result I want is that when you
>> type "cabal install hmatrix-static" with ghc-6.12 installed, then
>> cabal chooses hmatrix-static-0.3; and when you type "cabal install
>> hmatrix-static" with ghc-7.0 installed, then cabal chooses
>> hmatrix-static-0.4.
> 
> 
> Clients of hmatrix-static would have to say
> 
>     if impl(ghc >= 7.0)
>         Build-Depends: hmatrix-static == 0.4.*
>     else
>         Build-Depends: hmatrix-static == 0.3.*
> 
> in order to pull in the right dependency for themselves.
> 
> In order to get the behavior you're after, though, is trickier business.
> Since every version of GHC ships with a different version of base, you'll
> have to make use of that knowledge such that users of ghc-7.0 with base-5
> will get hmatrix-static-0.4 whereas users of ghc-6.12 with base-4 will get
> hmatrix-static-0.3

Don't you just rerelease 0.3.x (bump the sub-version) with a dependency on
base < 5, and release 0.4 with base = 5, and let Cabal work out the above
Build-Depends for itself?

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