Cabal in HP (Was: binary in HP

[shelarcy]

OK. I see.

On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:28:00 +0900, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Again, I'm very reluctant to alter the version of a package that comes with
> GHC. In this case, it would require any packager of HP to be sure to
> rebuild GHC 7.6.2 with the altered version. That would be change from
> current practice for packagers. Further, for some distributions it is not
> possible because the GHC part of HP is packaged separately, and directly
> from the GHC HQ release.
>
> If the bugs in 1.16.0.3 were significant enough, I'd have expected to see a
> point release of GHC. If they were deemed not important enough to rev. GHC,
> then I would rather take GHC as it comes, as a stable and known entity,
> than start jiggering with the package versions.
>
> - Mark
> ​
>

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