On 11/01/11 20:57, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Magnus, > >> So, what are your thoughts. Should I continue hacking on this? > > there already is a tool that can figure out which versions of a given set of > packages are compatible with each other: cabal-install. The code of that > utility features an algorithm to compute something that's called > "InstallPlan". In my humble opinion, that is what we should use to maintain > our PKGLIST.
Thanks for pointing out that option for the implementation. > Unfortunately, cabal-install doesn't have a library interface that we could > access, so to get that done we would have to hack that tool, or we would > have to convince Duncan to hack it for us. Either way, I feel that it's more > sensible to re-use that existing code (which is being developed and > maintained by the community) rather than re-inventing all this from scratch. Implementation details aside, do you think that such a tool would be useful? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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