<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>It's nice to verify that my code still works with GHC 7.0 which to my knowledge is the GHC version most compliant to the published Haskell 2010 Report. But I realize that nowadays making do with plain Haskell 2010 and without all those GHC extensions may not be a popular opinion though.<br></div><div dir="ltr"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Mi., 27. Mai 2020 um 14:50 Uhr schrieb Carter Schonwald <<a href="mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com">carter.schonwald@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hey all,</div><div dir="auto">What are the oldest ghc versions folks are actually using to build software they actually use ? What are the contexts for these ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know a lot of library maintainers, myself included try to make it easy to suport as wide a version range of ghc as possible. In my case I find it useful to just have another way to evaluate how stable I can make a library. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That said, what actual old ghc versions are folks actually using? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Afaict, the oldest ghc currently in a lts linux distro is ghc 7.0 in centos 6</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then centos 7 and the oldest Ubuntu lts are 7.6, then more recent distros plus most other os platforms like the bsds are on 8.0-8.4 as the oldest supported / provided ghc. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Who are the users today and how important are they for todays library maintainers ? </div>
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