Ah, this begins to answer my question: there isn't really a plan....
I would have thought that he first step is to be able to distinguish which of the hackage packages "compile" under 6.8 - some annotation to the hackage DB? Secondly, is there a dependency graph of the stuff on hackage anywhere? That would identify which order to change packages in (for example the cabal-install package is dependent on exactly one version of the HTTP library). We need to size the problem. Nei On 09/09/2007, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 14:50 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > > > > Given that GHC 6.8 is just around the corner and, given how it has > > > re-organised the libraries so that the dependencies in many (most/all) > > > the packages in the hackage DB are now not correct. > > > > > > Is there a plan of how to get hackage DB up to speed with GHC 6.8 ? > > > > I think whatever we go with will be deeply painful. Especially given > > the switch to Cabal configurations comes at the same time, rather than > > before. > > Cabal 1.2 is out now and supports configurations and current ghc: > > http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html > > Duncan > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe