What build environments should Cabal support?

[Ben Millwood]

Do we therefore have no interest in compilers other than GHC? Can we
drop all instances of ifdef __HUGS__ from the code?

I think doing so would require a reasonable amount of work, but would
significantly lower the barrier to contributing to Cabal.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:51:12AM +0000, Ben Millwood wrote:
>>
>> - what is the oldest version of GHC we intend to support?
>> - do we still support Hugs? what about other non-GHC implementations?
>
> The HACKING file in the root directory says
>
>     Dependencies policy
>     -------------------
>
>     Cabal's policy is to support being built by versions of GHC that are up
>     to 3 years old.
>
> Note that this is what compilers you can use to build Cabal, not what
> compilers Cabal can build libraries for.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
>
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