Cabal feature request - dates in versions

[Ross Paterson]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:11:47PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> When developing a library I would like to have cabal files with
> something like:
> 
> Version: 0.9.<date>
> 
> where Cabal would automatically generate the exact version based
> on the current date (e.g. 0.9.20060422). This would be very useful
> for development versions of libraries.

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