[Haskell-cafe] Dropping containers support for old GHC versions

Fri Mar 9 16:32:49 UTC 2018

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, David Feuer wrote:

> How would you feel about switching to 7.6.3? That would definitely make 
> my life easier. I have to warn you, however, that we will not support 
> 7.6 or 7.8 forever. We'll probably drop 7.6 in another year or two, and 
> 7.8 in another two or three.

I am happy to switch to any new GHC if there will be at least a warning 
for "length (1,2)":
    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11796