Ah, I hadn't thought of that. But doesn't the version of GHC change much more often than the version of base does?
Reiner On 6 November 2010 03:49, Ozgur Akgun <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK, the way to do this is putting constraints on the base package. > > On 5 November 2010 14:59, Reiner Pope <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a library, hmatrix-static, on Hackage. Version 0.3 (the current >> version) compiles with ghc-6.12. >> >> Let's say I want to upgrade my library using new features in ghc-7.0, >> and then release these upgrades as version 0.4. Is there any way to >> state in my cabal file that this new version will no longer compile >> under ghc-6.12? The reason I would like to state this is so that a >> user with ghc-6.12 can do 'cabal install hmatrix-static' (or do a >> cabal install of a program depending on hmatrix-static) and see that >> cabal will install version 0.3 rather than attempt to install version >> 0.4 and fail. >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Reiner >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > -- > Ozgur Akgun > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
