[Haskell-cafe] Why does cabal select base-3.0.3.2 when base-4.2.0.0 is available?

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 08:07:00 EDT 2010


Bjorn Buckwalter <bjorn.buckwalter at gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 19:38, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bjorn Buckwalter <bjorn.buckwalter at gmail.com> writes:
>>> Why does cabal seem to prefer base-3.0.3.2 over base-4.2.0.0 when
>>> installing packages with an unqualified base requirement? Example:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The reason that base-3 is chosen is because many of these old
>> libraries won't build with base-4; as such, if no upper bound
>> restriction is found on the base package then base-3 is chosen as it
>> is more likely to work than base-4 (there were a _lot_ of breakages
>> when base-4 first came out with 6.10.1).
>
> I see, I guess that's pragmatic although the deprecation warning is
> unfortunate.

The deprecation warning is due to GHC 6.12; this is a not-so-subtle hint
to package maintainers to fix their code up, and to users to poke the
maintainers of packages they use to do so!

-- 
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
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