[darcs-users] ghc support policy (Was: darcs patch: Add Repository IO monad, RIO. (and 1 more))

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> wrote:
>> I'd not oppose this if we can get a clear picture that noone is any
>> longer running ghc 6.4.  If they are, then it seems worth allowing
>> them  to continue using updated  versions of darcs.  The trouble, of
>> course, is that it's very, very hard to know  what compiler folks  are
>> using.   Maybe we could integrate some sort of optional phone-home
>> capability in the build sequence, which could report on what compilers
>> are being used?
>
> Does anybody have suggestions on how we could go about this?  Trent has
> posted some useful facts about Debian/Ubuntu clearly long past GHC 6.4
> usage.  A phone home feature and harvesting the data seems like it might
> be far off.
>
> In the meantime, would an informal poll do the trick? Could you let us
> know if you are using GHC 6.4 or somebody you know is (and you think
> that upgrading to a later GHC would be too difficult?).  Thanks!

A good start would  be to contact the folks running the ghc 6.4
buildbots, to see if they care about those machines, or if they just
installed an old version of ghc to  broaden our test base.

David