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#2base optional depends for old ghc?
Just checking here but is base really an optional dependency for older versions of ghc?
from http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hint
Dependencies: base (==3.*), directory, exceptions, extensible-exceptions, filepath, ghc (>6.6), ghc-paths, mtl, random, utf8-string
or
base (==4.*), directory, exceptions, extensible-exceptions, filepath, ghc (>6.6), ghc-mtl (==1.2.1.*), ghc-paths, mtl, random, utf8-string
*or*
exceptions, extensible-exceptions, filepath, ghc (>6.6), ghc-paths, mtl, utf8-string (<0.3)- description updated
- description updated
- summary changed to "base optional depends for old ghc?"
By looking at hint.cabal, the case where base is not required is when trying to compile with ghc <= 6.6. I can't tell if base didn't exist at the time or that is just an error. In any case, a large cleanup removing support for really old versions of ghc is pending...
- status set to closed
