Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why are new releases of libraries required for every GHC release?

Hi

Some recent comments suggested that every time there is a new GHC release, there needs to be a new wxHaskell release (or insert name of other library here) to work with it. This seems to be true even for minor upgrades, like 6.4.1 -> 6.4.2.

Yes, if you pick Gtk2Hs, wxHaskell. However lots of other libraries will work just fine between GHC releases

Why is this? Does GHC break binary compatibility at every release? Is this avoidable?

It breaks binary compatibility, not source compatibility. Only a relatively small number of libraries are effected. Thanks Neil