What Haskell users are actively maintaining or deving software using ghc <8

[Carter Schonwald]

That’s actually a pretty concrete reason.  As far as those go.

That said, would be great to hear from more folks

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 11:26 AM Helmut Schmidt <
helmut.schmidt.4711 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> It's nice to verify that my code still works with GHC 7.0 which to my
> knowledge is the GHC version most compliant to the published Haskell 2010
> Report. But I realize that nowadays making do with plain Haskell 2010 and
> without all those   GHC extensions may not be a popular opinion though.
>
> Am Mi., 27. Mai 2020 um 14:50 Uhr schrieb Carter Schonwald <
> carter.schonwald at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hey all,
>> What are the oldest ghc versions folks are actually using to build
>> software they actually use ? What are the contexts for these ?
>>
>> I know a lot of library maintainers, myself included try to make it easy
>> to suport as wide a version range of ghc as possible.  In my case I find it
>> useful to just have another way to evaluate how stable I can make a
>> library.
>>
>> That said, what actual old ghc versions are folks actually using?
>>
>> Afaict, the oldest ghc currently in a lts linux distro is ghc 7.0 in
>> centos 6
>>
>> Then centos 7 and the oldest Ubuntu lts are 7.6, then more recent distros
>> plus most other os platforms like the bsds are on 8.0-8.4 as the oldest
>> supported / provided ghc.
>>
>> Who are the users today and how important are they for todays library
>> maintainers ?
>>
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