On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Ben Lippmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benl@ouroborus.net" target="_blank">benl@ouroborus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Right now, the latest packages uploaded to Hackage get built with ghc-7.6 (only), and all the pages say "Built on ghc-7.6". By doing this we force *all* library developers to run GHC 7.6. I think this sends the clearest message about what the "real" GHC version is. <br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't know how closely users look at the "built on" line on the package page. Perhaps they look there, perhaps they don't.</div><div><br></div><div>Between Bryan and me we build all of our own packages and all HP packages on the latest 3 GHC versions:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://ci.johantibell.com/">http://ci.johantibell.com/</a></div><div><a href="https://jenkins.serpentine.com/">https://jenkins.serpentine.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>That doesn't mean that it would be a bad idea to build all Hackage packages on using more GHC versions, but that won't happen until the Hackage project is unstuck (it has been stuck for years!).</div>
<div><br></div><div>-- Johan</div><div><br></div></div>