[Haskell-cafe] Builder vs Builder

[Erik Hesselink]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Johannes Waldmann
<waldmann at imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Erik Hesselink <hesselink <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've never had any problems installing newer bytestring versions.
>> Unless you're using the GHC API, what is the problem?
>
> Template Haskell.
>
> (I guess this counts as "using the GHC API" somehow.
> But even if you are not, one of your dependencies may be doing it.)
>
> See http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-January/003835.html

Template haskell doesn't depend on bytestring, and bytestring doesn't
depend on template-haskell, so I don't see how that situation applies.

Erik