Priorities for 6.10

[Simon Marlow]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 06:38 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
>> | By the way, is everyone OK with increasing the minimum GHC required to
>> | 6.4.2? Apart from allowing some more of the cruft to be removed, Cabal
>> | supports building with GHC >= 6.4.2, so this would allow us to use Cabal
>> | to do more of the building work.
>>
>> What specifically does 6.4.2 provide that 6.2 doesn't, that would help?
> 
> I seem to recall being told that ghc-6.9 removed support for building
> with ghc-6.2 so I did the same for Cabal. If that was wrong then we can
> add back support for being compiled by (but not using) 6.2. (Previously
> it also supported using ghc-6.2 to build Cabal packages, eg generating
> package registration files etc.)

You're right, I forgot we already raised the bar to 6.4.  Here's the patch:

Mon Jan 21 11:18:35 GMT 2008  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
   * Increase the bar for bootstrapping GHC to 6.4 (HEAD only)


Cheers,
	Simon