On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 23:37:37 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Samstag, den 04.10.2014, 10:08 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: > > > Why exactly is your proposed changes to hgettext required? > > > > hgettext ships some cabal functions. Most notably gettextDefaultMain, > > which replaces the original defaultMain (from cabal) and installs > > the .po files and other stuff that belongs to gettext. > > > > If that function is compiled against the old GHC version, running cabal > > install on a package that uses this function result in errors, because > > of invalid command line flags. I guess this is because Setup.hs has > > changed it's CLI in the newer version, but cabal-install expects this > > new CLI. (Running runghc Setup.hs <command> works fine, since the newer > > cabal-install isn't involved) > > > > This means most packages, that ship functions that are to be used in > > Setup.hs, should be compiled against the same version as cabal-install. > > To ensure compatibility. > > nasty. But hopefully not many packages provide code to be used from > Setup.lhs. s/lhs/hs/ ? Will you upload hgettext then? Regards Sven
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