[Haskell] Re: Trying to install binary-0.4
Isaac Dupree
isaacdupree at charter.net
Sun Oct 28 13:49:12 EDT 2007
Simon Marlow wrote:
> Probably it could be made clearer. In 4.2 the idea is that instead of
> replacing
>
> base-2.0 ==> base-3.0 + directory-1.0 + array-1.0 + ...
>
> you would replace
>
> base-2.0 ==> newbase-1.0 + directory-1.0 + array-1.0 + ...
>
> and additionally have a package base-3.0 that re-exports the whole of
> (newbase + directory + array + ...).
"Macros" in cabal: Why not just say that depending on base-3.0 actually
means that you have to depend on newbase-1.0, and directory-1.0, etc...
Why is compiler support needed? is it really possible that I still
don't understand?
Isaac
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