Johannes Waldmann <waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de> writes: > Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer <at> web.de> writes: > >> The problem is that otherpackages may depend on them too, so when cabal >> automatically reinstalls, those can break. > > how can this be - if the re-installed package is compiled > from the exact original source (as I just learned, cabal stores the sources)? > > or do you mean "the dependent packages must be recompiled" - > well, then cabal could just do it?
The latter, except that cabal-install doesn't know what you have installed (it can only go on the information supplied by ghc-pkg for now). > Of course I understand "lack of developer time". > Could any of this be forked out as student projects? Some of it was forked out to a GSoC project (a testing hook). Otherwise, I'm sure Duncan et. al. will support good-quality patches that solve the various bugs/feature requests on the bug tracker. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe