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

[Carter Schonwald]

agreed

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Adam Bergmark <adam at bergmark.nl> wrote:

> I appreciate that it may be hard/undesirable for some to use the latest
> GHC, but overall I don't think we should need to maintain backwards
> compatibility indefinitely because of that. Older versions of containers
> will still work with older GHCs, and other libraries depending on
> containers will still work as well as long as they support older container
> versions.
>
> But nevertheless, at least it seems there are no objections to dropping
> 7.0 and 7.2.2 support so far? :)
>
> Cheers,
> Adam
>
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 at 17:20 Daniel Cartwright <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> David, I just checked and you're correct - I believe I was remembering
>> some other library(ies), though I can't recall which ones.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:08 AM, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 9, 2018 10:55 AM, "Daniel Cartwright" <chessai1996 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On a related note, I find it strange when looking through source code
>>> for 'containers'/other Haskell libraries and still see notes about
>>> supporting non-GHC Haskell compilers (e.g. Hugs)
>>>
>>>
>>> I believe we've stripped all references to Hugs and nhc98 from
>>> containers. If you find any, let us know. I'd be interested in adding
>>> support for Frege, but the way it deals with numeric literals could be
>>> problematic.
>>>
>>>
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