[Haskell-cafe] Somewhat random history question - chicken and egg

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 07:43 -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote:
>         
>         GHC can be compiled with GHC 5.0 (or something around there).
>         If they add a new feature, they don't use it in GHC for years
>         and years.
> 
> *Can* be compiled with GHC 5.0, or *is* compiled?

Can.

The version it is compiled with it always itself because it does a two
stage bootstrap.

I think for 6.8.x the minimum bootstrap version is now 6.0 or 6.2.

Duncan