On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:07:06PM -0400, Joey Adams wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <b...@serpentine.com> wrote: > > I propose that the sense of the recommendation around upper bounds in the > > PVP be reversed: upper bounds should be specified only when there is a known > > problem with a new version of a depended-upon package. > > I, too, agree. Here is my assortment of thoughts on the matter. > > Here's some bad news: with cabal 1.14 (released with Haskell Platform > 2012.2), cabal init defaults to bounds like these: > > build-depends: base ==4.5.*, bytestring ==0.9.*, > http-types ==0.6.*
I'm not sure why you think this is "bad news". I designed this to conform exactly to the current PVP. If the PVP is changed then I will update cabal init to match. -Brent _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
