[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5 beta 4

[Eric Kow]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 13:01:59 +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> I found that the build uses ghc-6.8.3 which, I think, is no longer supported 
> for building darcs, IIRC.
> 
> Sorry for the noise.

Not noise because it resulted in http://bugs.darcs.net/patch365
which attempts to enforce this dependency by raising the base
package floor from >= 3 to >=4, which I imagine is not a mistake.

I'm keeping the haskell-cafe CC because I was puzzled for a while about
how to make Darcs explicitly depend on GHC 6.10 and wanted to share the
steps I eventually took:

1. visit GHC download page (we're looking for older versions)
   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html

2. scroll down to earliest GHC 6.10

3. click on release notes

4. search for 'base package'

Maybe somebody will shout if this turns out to be the wrong way to
approach things, or if it's fundamentally unwise.

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