[Haskell-cafe] Backward compatibility

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 3 May 2013 01:04, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Adrian May <adrian.alexander.may at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you're missing the point of the platform!
>>
>>
>> I suppose I did miss the point of the platform: I was trying to build it,
>> which requires at least part of the
>
> Having to build it already indicates that something is wrong, unless you're
> porting to an unsupported OS/hardware.

Or you have a source-based distro, or you prefer building it yourself
rather than using distro packages (as they might be out of date or
b0rked), etc. ... ;-)

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