Releasing containers 0.5.3.2 -- before GHC 7.8?

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Tue Jan 14 19:23:12 UTC 2014


have you tried installing a newer version of containers yourself globally,
and making the other one hidden? Or just making the global one ghc comes
with hidden?


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info>wrote:
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>> * Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> [2014-01-14 11:41:48-0500]
>> > Replacing containers seems like a real pain for end users
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>> Is it a real pain? Why?
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> One thing I ran into is that cabal sandboxes want consistent dependencies.
>  And when users get to this point where they need to grab our latest
> containers, they've got a bunch of core/haskell platform packages that
> depend on the old containers.
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> I didn't mean that there was anything difficult about containers itself,
> just that almost everything else depends on it.
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>   -Ryan
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