PVP proposal: no upper bounds on non-upgradeable packages

[Michael Snoyman]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr at gnu.org>wrote:

> On 2014-04-10 at 06:25:24 +0200, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> What version of GHC was this package successfully built against? As was
> >> discussed elsewhere, perhaps base and other core packages should have
> fewer
> >> breaking changes instead.
>
> > Are you aware that there's a tested-with field in cabal for exactly that
> > purpose? I'm not sure why you'd prefer a proxy variable with side-effects
> > to the real thing.
>
> This is a cabal field I've been wondering about already.
> What is this 'tested-with' field actually used for (or what was its
> original motivation)? Are there tools actually interpreting it?
>
>
I'm not aware of it being used for anything besides display purposes.

Michael
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