[Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs
from source on GHC 6.6?
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Wed Oct 29 11:01:11 EDT 2008
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:17:35AM -0000, Mitchell, Neil wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> I believe the major darcs issue is the changed GADT implementation
> between 6.6, so that neither 6.6 or 6.8 is a superset/subset of the
> other - leading to a situation where they have to use a common subset of
> both.
No, the 6.6 gadts are nicer than the 6.8 gadts, but the common subset
is pretty large. Duncan has the issue right: it's the desire to
reduce the number of dependencies that's at issue. And as far as
bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's
apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable,
but apparently some folks feel strongly about this.
David
More information about the Haskell-Cafe
mailing list