[Haskell-cafe] Can't install haskellnet with ghc7

[Vincent Hanquez]

  On 04/26/2011 10:17 PM, Charles-Pierre Astolfi wrote:
> Hi -cafe,
>
> Did anybody managed to install haskellnet from hackage with ghc7?
> I tried on windows and mac and I get the following type error:
>
> [ 4 of 11] Compiling Network.HaskellNet.SMTP (
> Network/HaskellNet/SMTP.hs, dist/build/Network/HaskellNet/SMTP.o )
> Network/HaskellNet/SMTP.hs:269:25:
>      Couldn't match expected type `Data.Text.Internal.Text'
>                  with actual type `[Char]'
>      Expected type: Data.Text.Internal.Text
>        Actual type: String
>      In the first argument of `simpleMail', namely `to'
>      In a stmt of a 'do' expression:
>          myMail<- simpleMail to from subject plainBody htmlBody attachments
>
> Am I missing something?

your mime-mail library is too recent.
the upper version in the cabal file of haskellnet is not limited, so 
it's picking up the 0.3.0 version which is incompatible with the 0.2.x.

Otherwise it was working for me with the previous version for both ghc6 
and ghc7.

-- 
Vincent