Cabal dependency extrema testing

[Roman Cheplyaka]

* Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> [2013-06-12 01:05:29+0300]
> * Bram Neijt <bneijt at gmail.com> [2013-06-11 23:15:39+0200]
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I think it would be interesting to test build a package with the
> > "latest" and "oldest" allowed dependencies, to see if the dependency
> > boundaries hold. For example, build the text[1] package with version
> > 0.2 of test-framework-hunit (oldest allowed according to .cabal file)
> > to see if that is still works.
> > 
> > Does anybody know of previous work on that?
> > Does anybody have pointers on how to build with a specific version set?
> > What is the easiest way to parse the dependencies in the cabal file,
> > API pointers are also very much appreciated :)
> 
> I believe Bram Schuur (CC'd) worked on this during OdHac.

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