Priorities for 6.10

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:08:29AM +0100, 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.

Oh, it's entirely possible that we already agreed to drop support but
that I've since forgotten.

> If that was wrong then we can add back support for being compiled by
> (but not using) 6.2.

We'd need to be able to use it for it to be worthwhile.


Thanks
Ian