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 hledger news
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+2009/06/22 hledger 0.6.1
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+  * avoid use of exitSuccess which was breaking ghc 6.8/base 3 compatibility (issue #2)
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 2009/06/13 hledger 0.6
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   * now cabal-installable on unix, mac, and windows, with Haskell Platform