[darcs-users] darcs patch: Refactor version machinery in Setup.lhs. (and 3 more)

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 01:14:40 UTC 2009


Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

> The Cabal file and Setup.lhs you have written us has an explicit
> dependency on 1.6 and we were wondering if there was a particularly
> strong reason to do this, and if it would be extremely inconvenient to
> make it work with Cabal 1.2.
>
> (I now say 1.2 instead of 1.4, because it's what ships with GHC 6.8,
> which is presumably what Trent is after...).

Right; brain fart.  I want this because it will allow Darcs 2.3 to be
"backported" to Lenny, which will be released with GHC 6.8 not 6.10.

> I think we're OK with requiring Cabal 1.6.  It's just that if we can
> easily get away without it, we might as well try to minimise the pain
> on our users.

My sentiments exactly.



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