HTTP package - supported GHC versions

[Andreas Abel]

If it is not too much of a hassle, rather support old versions of GHC. 
As mentioned below, there are long term support versions of Linux that 
package older GHCs.

I was positively surprised that the latest QuickCheck still supports GHC 
6.8.  Agda aims to support GHC 7.0 for a while still (which keeps me 
from using some nice syntax extensions to Haskell).

Cheers,
Andreas

On 03.09.2014 19:09, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2014-09-03 at 14:25:39 +0200, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> More generally I'm not too keen on having a lower bound that is "stuck",
>> rather than moving forwards in a routine fashion as new GHC and Haskell
>> Platform releases appear. So I like the "three versions" rule and I
>> don't like "the first Haskell2010-supporting GHC onwards".
>>
>> All that said I do like the general idea of supporting a wide range of
>> GHCs with a low-level library like this and I'm happy to do so if
>> there's some plausible value in it.
>
> I don't have any strong opinion on "last three major GHC versions (with
> an associated HP release)" vs "the first Haskell2010-supporting GHC
> on-wards", either are fine with me, as even the latter one would
> typically span a 3-4 year window (which would be good enough for most
> Linux distros except certain "enterprise" ones...)
>
> However, one should just be aware that the lower your package is in the
> dependency graph, the larger the transitive avalanche effect of forcing
> newer lower-bounds on packages depending upon yours is.  Otoh, at some
> point this is bound to happen anyway...
>
> Cheers,
>    hvr
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