Ticket #336 (new defect)

Opened 3 months ago

Last modified 4 weeks ago

--constraint flag only used for configure not for install/upgrade dep planning

Reported by: duncan Assigned to:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc: Difficulty: easy (<4 hours)
GHC Version: 6.8.2 Platform:

Description

It would be relatively easy to support the --constraint=DEP flag as an input to install/upgrade dependency planning. We should do it because it's useful and it's confusing that it's not supported.

Change History

11/08/08 05:55:55 changed by duncan

Indeed it's pretty much essential for constraints when installing the package in the current directory.