[darcs-devel] [patch1504] Tweak for sandi-0.4.*

[Guillaume Hoffmann]

Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com> added the comment:

After some investigation I came to the conclusion that we should
just drop support for GHC's older than 7.10 in both HEAD and 2.12
branches.

The reasons are:

* our slow response time indicate that we don't have a lot of
  developer time to dedicate supporting all GHC >= 7.6 versions;
  and we really need to focus on newer rather than older GHC's.
* debian jessie (the current stable) has a backports package
  repository that provides GHC 7.10
* GHC 7.6 is bugged anyway (see http://tinyurl.com/q23yblu )
  and I recently lost hours trying to compile Darcs with GHC 7.6
  because of that bug. Once I updated my system to get GHC 7.10,
  everything went fine.

So here is a patch that applies on both HEAD and the 2.12 branch.

It makes Darcs requiring base >= 4.8 and time >= 1.5, so there are
a couple of simplifications along with the base version bump.

With this we'll be able to do a 2.12.1 release soon.

2 patches for repository http://darcs.net:

patch 7cc493ec9cab956f45512143651200de1f6d09d4
Author: Guillaume Hoffmann <guillaumh at gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Sep  1 12:04:02 ART 2016
  * require GHC 7.10 and time 1.5

patch e6ac1ae569c6e64bd561a918e319e7d330abea05
Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox at community.haskell.org>
Date:   Sat Jul  2 11:58:18 ART 2016
  * Tweak for sandi-0.4.*

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