[Haskell-cafe] Platform Versioning Policy: upper bounds are not our friends

[dag.odenhall at gmail.com]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:38 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>wrote:

> A benign change will obviously have no visible effect, while a compilation
> failure is actually *better* than a depsolver failure, because it's more
> informative.
>

But with upper bounds you give Cabal a chance to try and install a
supported version, thus avoiding failure all together.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/attachments/20120816/9affd09c/attachment.htm>