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Description
-- Disregard all `^>=`-style upper bounds when dependency solving
allow-newer: ^all
SOURCE: project allow-newer
The docs mention using allow-newer: ^all
but trying this gives a parser error.
$ cabal init allow-any-newer --non-interactive
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
[Info] Guessing dependencies...
[Info] Using cabal specification: 3.0
[Warn] unknown license type, you must put a copy in LICENSE yourself.
[Info] Creating fresh file CHANGELOG.md...
[Info] Creating fresh directory ./app...
[Info] Creating fresh file app/Main.hs...
[Info] Creating fresh file allow-any-newer.cabal...
[Warn] No synopsis given. You should edit the .cabal file and add one.
[Info] You may want to edit the .cabal file and add a Description field.
$ cd allow-any-newer/
$ cabal build all --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
Resolving dependencies...
Build profile: -w ghc-9.10.1 -O1
...
$ echo "allow-newer: all" > cabal.project.local
$ cabal build all --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
Resolving dependencies...
Up to date
$ echo "allow-newer: ^all" > cabal.project.local
$ cabal build all --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks
Warning: this is a debug build of cabal-install with assertions enabled.
Error: [Cabal-7090]
Error parsing project local configuration file /.../allow-any-newer/cabal.project.local:1:
"<eitherParsec>" (line 1, column 1):
unexpected "^"
expecting comma or "*"
I see the same behaviour with cabal-install-3.12.1.0
and with cabal-install
installed from d988732.