[Haskell-cafe] Fwd: hackage compile failure with QuickCheck 2.5

[Gregory Collins]

Is there any reason QuickCheck specifically requires containers >= 0.5?
Perhaps its lower bound could be relaxed.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 09:35:52AM +0100, Erik Hesselink wrote:
> > I don't think you can install this package on 7.4. As Andres said, it
> > requires containers 0.5, but ghc 7.4's base libraries (in this case,
> > template-haskell) use containers 0.4, and can't be reinstalled. I
> > guess your best bet is to use sbv-2.1, which depends on containers >=
> > 0.3, or to unpack it and see if you can loosen the containers
> > dependency and see if it still works with 0.4
>
> I'm talking about unattended automated builds, so tweaking isn't an
> option.  On the other hand breaking the package environment isn't so bad,
> because I'm throwing it away after each build.
>
> > So in short, no combination of flags will work in this case, I think.
> > Failure is the best option.
>
> Actually --force-reinstalls does work in this case, and this thread began
> with Levent being unhappy with the failure option for his package, so
> I'm tempted to use that flag on all hackage builds.
>
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Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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