Cabal dependency extrema testing

Roman Cheplyaka roma at ro-che.info
Wed Jun 12 00:16:19 CEST 2013


* Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> [2013-06-12 01:10:56+0300]
> * 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.
> 
> Trying his another email...

Still no luck. This is his github account, maybe try to reach him there:
https://github.com/craffit

Roman



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