[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Tue Oct 28 22:50:26 EDT 2008


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Thus I think the version/upgrade matrix is handy so we can
> > plan/schedule when it is safe to drop support.
> 
> In an ideal world, we just make sure it builds with the latest tools,
> and let the users of stable distros worry about telling us if it
> breaks against whatever versions they care about.

No, in the idea world we'd try to be supportive of our contributors and
maintainers by not requiring that they install the latest tools.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net


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