Re: [Haskell-cafe] Somewhat random history question - chicken and egg

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 07:43 -0500, Brent Yorgey wrote:

GHC can be compiled with GHC 5.0 (or something around there). If they add a new feature, they don't use it in GHC for years and years.

*Can* be compiled with GHC 5.0, or *is* compiled?

Can. The version it is compiled with it always itself because it does a two stage bootstrap. I think for 6.8.x the minimum bootstrap version is now 6.0 or 6.2. Duncan