[Haskell-cafe] Hackage being too strict?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 13:59 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> 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

Yes! Yes you're absolutely right, that's why I've been fixing it :-)

Duncan