bedandbreakfast needing a release

[Reid Barton]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 2:20 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.*?
>

While you can do this, there's really no reason to. All your package
depends on is any version of bedandbreakfast that the user can install.
cabal will prefer to install newer versions of packages over older ones, so
I don't think there's any situation in which adding this information to
your cabal file would allow your package to install when it otherwise
wouldn't.

Your real problem, as you note, is just that bedandbreakfast 5 is not
available on hackage.

Regards,
Reid Barton
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