Difference between revisions of "Upgrading packages/Updating to GHC 6.10"

Revision as of 03:26, 9 October 2008

A list of things that need updating when porting packages to newer library/cabal versions.

If you maintain a Haskell package this is for you.

For older versions of this document:

Main changes:

 force packages to build against the old base.

Packages that require base-3 (e.g. for old implementations of the exceptoin type, can be built using runhaskell Setup.hs with:

   --constraint="base==3.*"

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 == Updating to GHC 6.10 and Cabal 1.6 ==
+Main changes:
-[[Category:Libraries]
+* base-3 '''and''' base-4 will be installed, meaning you can always
+  force packages to build against the old base.
+=== cabal-install===
+===runhaskell ===
+Packages that require base-3 (e.g. for old implementations of the
+exceptoin type, can be built using runhaskell Setup.hs with:
+    --constraint="base==3.*"
+[[Category:Libraries]]