Cabal dependency extrema testing

Erik Hesselink hesselink at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 09:29:41 CEST 2013


On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:16 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:
> * Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> [2013-06-12 01:10:56+0300]
>> * Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> [2013-06-12 01:05:29+0300]
>> > * Bram Neijt <bneijt at gmail.com> [2013-06-11 23:15:39+0200]
>> > > Hi all,
>> > >
>> > > I think it would be interesting to test build a package with the
>> > > "latest" and "oldest" allowed dependencies, to see if the dependency
>> > > boundaries hold. For example, build the text[1] package with version
>> > > 0.2 of test-framework-hunit (oldest allowed according to .cabal file)
>> > > to see if that is still works.
>> > >
>> > > Does anybody know of previous work on that?
>> > > Does anybody have pointers on how to build with a specific version set?
>> > > What is the easiest way to parse the dependencies in the cabal file,
>> > > API pointers are also very much appreciated :)
>> >
>> > I believe Bram Schuur (CC'd) worked on this during OdHac.
>>
>> Trying his another email...
>
> Still no luck. This is his github account, maybe try to reach him there:
> https://github.com/craffit

I believe this address still works.

Regards,

Erik



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