[Haskell-cafe] GSoC: Improving Cabal's Test Support

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 00:23:39 EDT 2010


Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:
> What I don't understand is how it's possible for the discrepancy to happen.
>  It's as if ./Setup and cabal-install use different algorithms for
> dependency resolution, but as I understand it, both should be using the
> Cabal library for that.  My only other thought is that perhaps ./Setup uses
> a different version of the Cabal library than what cabal-install uses.

My understanding is that Setup.hs will use whatever libraries you
already have installed; cabal-install will use the latest allowable
version of libraries.

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Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
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