[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCEMENT] xmobar 0.14

[Antoine Latter]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
>  > Peter, would using parsec 3.x be an acceptable solution to you?
>
> well, we can link xmobar with parsec 3.x on NixOS. The situation
> is tricky, though, because the latest version of parsec that we
> have, 3.1.2, doesn't compile with GHC 6.10.4 anymore, so we'd
> have to use some older version to work around that problem. That
> kind of setup somewhat complicated to maintain, which is why I
> would prefer to compile xmobar with parsec 2 2 if at all
> possible.
>

Hi Peter,

What errors are you getting compiling with GHC 6.10.4? If its a small
thing I certainly don't mind patching things.

> Generally speaking, though, GHC 6.10.4 support is not a high
> priority. I just thought it might be worth pointing out that
> backwards compatibility has been lost in the 0.14 release,
> because earlier versions worked just fine.
>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
>
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