On 28 Jan 2010 at 15:45, Don Stewart wrote:
Could you talk a bit about why you need to support 6.4 onwards -- that seems like quite a burden. Is the effort worth it?
Good question. The code was developed on 6.4, and I would really quite like to continue 6.4 support for personal reasons, if nothing else. But I would like to release it on Hackage eventually, so I really need to consider support for later releases. :-) In principle, I don't anticipate any portability problems, other than this practical one of managing the way the various versions of the compiler handle language extensions. Obviously, there may come a point where I cut 6.4 loose, and to some extent this depends on what sort of solution (if any) to this problem arises. -- Iain Alexander ia@stryx.demon.co.uk