[Haskell-cafe] Dropping containers support for old GHC versions

[Moritz Kiefer]

That’s fair enough but couldn’t you just keep using an older version of
`containers` on this hardware? Obviously, newer versions will contain
bugfixes and new features but the same can be said for new releases of
GHC (and probably a ton of other software on those systems) and missing
out on those is apparently not a deal-breaker either.

Cheers
Moritz

On 03/09/2018 05:12 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 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.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Tom Ellis
> <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk
> <mailto:tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013 at jaguarpaw.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>     > On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, David Feuer wrote:
>     >
>     > >It's that time again. I'd very much like to drop containers support
>     > >for GHC version 7.0 (so I can increase the lower bound on array to 0.4
>     > >for Safe Haskell-related reasons). I'd also prefer to drop support for
>     > >GHC versions 7.2 and 7.4, but I'm somewhat open to being convinced not
>     > >to. What do you all think?
>     >
>     > I am still mainly using GHC-7.4.2.
> 
>     I'm rather curious why!
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