[darcs-devel] [patch2170] ci: extend the test matrix, explicit OS ... (and 2 more)

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li> added the comment:

On 16/05/2021 12:19, Ben Franksen wrote:
> 
> Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> added the comment:
> 
>> Looks fine. I'm in favour of moving to GHC >=8.6.
> 
> It occurs to me that it might be profitable to retain the ability to
> build a current darcs on darcs.net. What if we throw out ghc-8.2.2 and
> then find another critical bug that perhaps requires/suggests repairing
> our own repos again?

Then I think we should do it elsewhere and copy the result back up.

The infrastructure on darcs.net is a huge legacy that we will have to do
something about at some point, but I don't think it benefits us to hold
back mainline development just because of it.

Ganesh

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