bedandbreakfast needing a release

[Mike Meyer]

Ok, that works fine - except that bedandbreakfast 0.5 hasn't been released
yet :-(. Is there anything I can do other than add a note to add the head
from github as a sourcce, and send a note to the maintainer asking for a
release :-)?

Thanks,
Mike

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:

> Hi Mike, something like this should do the trick (untested):
>
> ```
> flag ghc78
>   description:       Using GHC >= 7.8
>   default:           True
>
> library
>   if flag(ghc78)
>     build-depends:
>       base >= 4.7
>       bedandbreakfast >= 5
>   else
>     build-depends:
>       base < 4.7
>       bedandbreakfast >= 4
> ```
>
> This uses a non-manual flag so cabal will toggle it if it needs to.
>
> HTH,
> Adam
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>
>> I've got a library that needed some simple matrix computation, so I added
>> the bedandbreakfast package. While my library builds fine on both 7.6 and
>> 7.8, the last released version of that package won't build on 7.8. However,
>> the current HUB was update a couple of weeks ago, and now builds on 7.8.
>>
>> Is there some way to capture that information in a cabal file? That if
>> you're using GHC 7.8, you need bedandbreakfast >= 5.*, but for GHC7.6 you
>> can use bedandbreakfast >= 4.*?
>>
>> I did send an email to the maintainer a little over a week ago asking if
>> he could do a release, and haven't gotten either a reply or a release.
>>
>> Any suggestions on what I should do about releasing the updated version
>> of my library?
>>
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