<div dir="ltr">Because not everyone has access to the latest and greatest hardware? (Which attitude is showing just a bit of privilege.) At CMU I got to ride herd on a rather astonishing collection of ancient hardware; I wouldn't be looking to install ghc8 on much of it either, since usually upgrading the OS is no-go and I'd have to backport a lot of stuff to get it --- and, even more so, packages using it --- to build at all.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Tom Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk" target="_blank">tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:<br>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, David Feuer wrote:<br>
><br>
> >It's that time again. I'd very much like to drop containers support<br>
> >for GHC version 7.0 (so I can increase the lower bound on array to 0.4<br>
> >for Safe Haskell-related reasons). I'd also prefer to drop support for<br>
> >GHC versions 7.2 and 7.4, but I'm somewhat open to being convinced not<br>
> >to. What do you all think?<br>
><br>
> I am still mainly using GHC-7.4.2.<br>
<br>
</span>I'm rather curious why!<br>
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