[darcs-users] dropping GHC 6.6 support

[Matthias Kilian]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:34:24AM +0200, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> On a side note is there any progress regarding the new build system kili?

Bootstrapping from .hc files *should* work again with ghc 6.11, but
I didn't try it yet. I hope to get my hands dirty during the next
few days, but since the next stable version of ghc (6.12) will
probably not released before october, I still would have to backport
the new build system to ghc 6.10. That would be a really nice
exercise for me actually using darcs for real ;-)

> (Which as I understood would make porting a newer ghc to OpenBSD easier).

Yes. The only alternatives would be to provide precompiled binaries
(which is ugly, imho) or to maintain several versions of ghc in the
ports tree (which is a maintainance nightmare).

Ciao,
	Kili