HUnit in Hackage

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Sat Nov 1 16:58:39 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 14:45 -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 16:53 -0700, Jon Strait wrote:
> > Just some quick user feedback/questions.
> > 
> > The current HUnit in Hackage depends on base (==4.*).  I'm running  GHC
> > 6.8.3 with base 3.0.2.0.   Is there an easier way to upgrade base
> > without rebuilding GHC?  Otherwise, the Cabal upgrade refuses to work
> > unless I uninstall my older HUnit completely, do the Cabal upgrade, then
> > re-install the older HUnit.  I have other packages which depend on
> > HUnit, so this must be done every time.  Or is there a way to tell Cabal
> > Install that I want to mask off HUnit for upgrading when I do a Cabal
> > upgrade?
> 
> I've updated the hunit package so that the latest version will build
> with either base 3 or 4 (ie with ghc-6.8 or 6.10).
> 
> I'll upload that to hackage soon.

Now done, it should work with all recent versions of ghc (since 6.6).


Duncan



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