Cabal and fps merge into base-package

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Donald,

Thursday, May 4, 2006, 3:51:53 AM, you wrote:

>> How is one supposed to handle fps being merged to the base package
>> in a Cabal file? Clearly GHC 6.4 will need to depend on the fps
>> package while with GHC 6.5 such a dependency is superfluous,
>> and actually having fps installed will cause conflicts.
>> 
> I can't think of a native Cabal way to solve this though. We don't allow
> __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ or such numbers inside .cabal files, or conditionals.

it will be great to provide such support inside Cabal, otherwise we will need
separate installation for each compiler version


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com