[Haskell-cafe] Hackage being too strict?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Duncan,

Friday, April 18, 2008, 1:43:24 PM, you wrote:

> older Cabal versions). We can make it stricter again in the future when
> Cabal-1.4+ is much more widely deployed.

the problem, imho, is that such tools as Cabal, GHC, Hackage should be
built with forward and backward compatibility in mind. otherwise,
Haskell will still remain mostly a hacker tool

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com