On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:48 , Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 05:19:31PM +0200, Udo Stenzel wrote:
Ian Lynagh wrote:
People interested in making it easy to use new versions of
packages with
old compiler releases can make a small script that installs empty
Cabal
packages called bytestring, containers, array, etc.
That completely misses the fact that bytestring cannot be
upgraded, no
matter how many fake packages are available.
Ah, you mean the problem is that it really does depend on some
change in
bytestring (the internal API?), rather than just having a
dependency on
the bytestring package?
I think dons has said that the latest bytestring depends on some GHC
6.8 internals that can't reasonably be backported, so if you need the
new bytestring API, you're kinda stuck.
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