Various issues with `toodles` package about toodles HOT 7 CLOSED

@hvr thanks so much for taking the time to open this issue and for the thorough explanation! I'll fix these things shortly.

An aside - I recently put another executable on Hackage that has the same issues as toodles, so you've really helped multiple repo's with this comment.

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@aviaviavi I'm afraid that lower bounds aren't enough, the build matrix is still red

But I notice you're using Stack which can generate/infer bounds from the stackage collection you used; e.g. you can add pvp-bounds: both to your stack.yaml file (which causes e.g. stack sdist to insert bounds where they're missing; see e.g. https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2015/09/stack-pvp )

Another tool is staversion (https://github.com/debug-ito/staversion) if you need more flexibility

(btw, are you aware of https://github.com/haskell-infra/hackage-trustees/blob/master/revisions-information.md ?)

from toodles.

@hvr ah these suggestions are very helpful, just what I was looking for! I had no idea what I was doing when trying to fix this, and my last package upload was mostly a shot in the dark. I'll try out these other approaches soon.

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Also good to know one can change these bounds without uploading a new version, didn't know!

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@hvr question for you - because this is just a binary distribution and not a library, in your opinion is there much harm in just pinning down most or all of the dependencies to exact versions?

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Well, with pinning them down exactly, this is building properly with ghc-8.4. Open getting this to work with other versions too if that's straightforward to do given a working stack project? If it's too much of a headache I may put that off until I know that people actually want to use this tool :)

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closing for now, now that this is cabal install-able, i'll make improvements to getting it to work with more versions now. feel free to re-open if there are other things to address.

thanks again @hvr !

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