Because not everyone has access to the latest and greatest hardware? (Which attitude is showing just a bit of privilege.) At CMU I got to ride herd on a rather astonishing collection of ancient hardware; I wouldn't be looking to install ghc8 on much of it either, since usually upgrading the OS is no-go and I'd have to backport a lot of stuff to get it --- and, even more so, packages using it --- to build at all.

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Tom Ellis <tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:42:21PM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, David Feuer wrote:
>
> >It's that time again. I'd very much like to drop containers support
> >for GHC version 7.0 (so I can increase the lower bound on array to 0.4
> >for Safe Haskell-related reasons). I'd also prefer to drop support for
> >GHC versions 7.2 and 7.4, but I'm somewhat open to being convinced not
> >to. What do you all think?
>
> I am still mainly using GHC-7.4.2.

I'm rather curious why!
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