Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Felipe Lessa wrote:

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This same issues comes up fairly often on the darcs-users mailing list. My understanding of the way things are handled there, is that if there is ever a good reason to drop support for a version of GHC then the person who wants to drop support is supposed to look and see what is in Debian stable. If debian stable is still covered after the proposed changes then they are accepted automatically. If Debian stable would not be covered, then

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: there

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is a discussion to reach consensus. The reasons it works are: a) support is dropped lazily when there is a real demand to do so, instead of artificially; b) letting people discuss it case-by-case allows the decision to be made with full context.

Do you know if they test on GHC 6.8? Or do they just avoid extensions and hope it works? =)

They use a farm of buildbots to test: http://buildbot.darcs.net/ Jason