[Haskell-cafe] Notice for package authors

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Wed Jun 3 17:15:17 EDT 2009


On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> For example, if you've tested with base 3 and 4 then use:
>
>        build-depends: base >= 3 && < 5
>
> Or if it needs version 4 then use:
>
>        build-depends: base == 4.*

It would be cool, if base-3 could be used with GHC-6.10 for packages that 
have not been updated so far. When I upload a base-3 package to Hackage 
today, it may be not be built by Hackage because Hackage only supports 
base-4 currently.


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