[darcs-users] Cabal-1.6 is not pulled automatically by cabal-install (Was: Re: 2.2.0pre2 tarballs ready for testing)

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 09:02 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> maybe Duncan could tell us more about this? Maybe we are supposed to list Cabal
> explicitly in the build-depends, in addition to Cabal-Version: >= 1.6? Or maybe
> this is an inherent limitation (since it possibly needs cabal-install to be
> restarted?) and we should instead put a notice on this in our build
> instructions?
> 
> Please see the transcript below for details of the failure...

Right. cabal-install does not consider dependencies on the Cabal
library, just like it does not yet consider deps on build-tools etc.
Currently it only handles build-depends.

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/342

One day it might do. In the mean time update your build instructions.

Note: do not add Cabal to the build-depends as a way to try to work
around this inconvenience.

Duncan