On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Rogan Creswick <cresw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Steven J. Murdoch > <steven.murd...@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote: >> $ ghc-pkg list base >> /Users/ghc6/homebrew/Cellar/ghc/6.12.3/lib/ghc/package.conf.d >> base-3.0.3.2 >> base-4.2.0.2 > > I'm a bit fuzzy on the details when it comes to the core packages that > are distributed with ghc, but my understanding is that the compiler is > /very/ needy about which base it can use. As far as I know, the only > way to change versions of Base is by changing the compiler to the > version that uses the desired base. > > With that in mind, having two base libraries installed in the same > package database seems like a recipe for disaster. >
GHC 6.12.1 shipped with two versions of base, so this is okay in this case. But I really don't know if we export two different versions of GHC.* from the different versions of base. Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
