I am using ghc 7.6 and up. I dropped support for ghc 7.4 and below because I fancy \case which is new in 7.6. I'd say there is little reason to support ghc 6 any longer (but probably this is anyway the consensus). That said, I do not maintain any libraries. Libraries should not drop ghc versions lightly. On 2020-05-27 16:50, Carter Schonwald wrote:
Hey all, What are the oldest ghc versions folks are actually using to build software they actually use ? What are the contexts for these ?
I know a lot of library maintainers, myself included try to make it easy to suport as wide a version range of ghc as possible. In my case I find it useful to just have another way to evaluate how stable I can make a library.
That said, what actual old ghc versions are folks actually using?
Afaict, the oldest ghc currently in a lts linux distro is ghc 7.0 in centos 6
Then centos 7 and the oldest Ubuntu lts are 7.6, then more recent distros plus most other os platforms like the bsds are on 8.0-8.4 as the oldest supported / provided ghc.
Who are the users today and how important are they for todays library maintainers ?
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