fgl version missing on hackage

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Oct 23 09:40:17 EDT 2008


Christian.Maeder:
> Ross Paterson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:45:00AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> >> Christian.Maeder:
> >>> Could you upload fgl-5.4.2.0?
> [..]
> 
> I see, there is even a newer version fgl-5.4.2.1
> http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/fgl/haskell/
> 
> I would very much appreciate, if these libraries were reachable via
> cabal-install, Martin.
> 
> > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_released_with_GHC
> > 
> > (I see that Win32's version number went backwards between GHC 6.6.1/6.8.1.)
> 
> columns for ghc-6.6 and ghc-6.6.1 are reversed
> 
> > It might make sense for some of these versions to be extracted from the
> > GHC source releases and placed on hackage.
> 
> fgl-5.4.2.0 is the only library left that:
>  - is not on hackage
>  - has a blank entry for ghc-6.10.1 on
>    http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Libraries_released_with_GHC
>  - was shipped with ghc-6.8.3 or earlier ghcs (on the same page)
> 
> So at least fgl-5.4.2.0 should be uploaded. (Version fgl-5.4.1 for
> ghc-6.6.1 is also missing)
> 

yes, that's a good point to remember. ghc's moving out of the library
maintainance business, in favour of hackage and the platform team. the 
gap between 'extralibs' released with ghc 6.10 and ghc 6.8 needs to be
checked, to make sure those packages in the gap are on hackage.

-- Don


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