[Haskell] Re: Trying to install binary-0.4

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:48 , Ian Lynagh wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:19:31PM +0200, Udo Stenzel wrote:
>> Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>> People interested in making it easy to use new versions of  
>>> packages with
>>> old compiler releases can make a small script that installs empty  
>>> Cabal
>>> packages called bytestring, containers, array, etc.
>>
>> That completely misses the fact that bytestring cannot be  
>> upgraded, no
>> matter how many fake packages are available.
>
> Ah, you mean the problem is that it really does depend on some  
> change in
> bytestring (the internal API?), rather than just having a  
> dependency on
> the bytestring package?

I think dons has said that the latest bytestring depends on some GHC  
6.8 internals that can't reasonably be backported, so if you need the  
new bytestring API, you're kinda stuck.

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