On Tuesday 15 April 2008 10:53:03 pm Gwern Branwen wrote: > On 2008.04.15 22:15:29 -0500, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled 0.7K characters: > > When I went to make my upload of MissingH 1.0.1, Hackage rejected it, > > saying: > > > > Instead of 'ghc-options: -XPatternSignatures' use 'extensions: > > PatternSignatures' > > > > It hadn't rejected MissingH 1.0.0, even though it had the same thing. > > > > Now, my .cabal file has this: > > > > -- Hack because ghc-6.6 and the Cabal the comes with ghc-6.8.1 > > -- does not understand the PatternSignatures extension. > > -- The Cabal that comes with ghc-6.8.2 does understand it, so > > -- this hack can be dropped if we require Cabal-Version: >=1.2.3 > > If impl(ghc >= 6.8) > > GHC-Options: -XPatternSignatures > > > > which was contributed by Duncan Coutts. > > > > It seems arbitrary that Hackage would suddenly reject this valid > > usage. > > > > Thoughts? > > Doesn't strike me as being any more arbitrary than demanding a Build-type: > field.
Well, that's perhaps a problem too. It makes it difficult to produce a .cabal file that can both be parsed by GHC 6.6 and uploaded to Hackage. > > -- > gwern > submiss mega Audiotel meta SUBACS JSOTF NMIC EIP RAID CRA _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe