Do we therefore have no interest in compilers other than GHC? Can we drop all instances of ifdef __HUGS__ from the code?
I think doing so would require a reasonable amount of work, but would significantly lower the barrier to contributing to Cabal. On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Ian Lynagh <i...@well-typed.com> wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 02:51:12AM +0000, Ben Millwood wrote: >> >> - what is the oldest version of GHC we intend to support? >> - do we still support Hugs? what about other non-GHC implementations? > > The HACKING file in the root directory says > > Dependencies policy > ------------------- > > Cabal's policy is to support being built by versions of GHC that are up > to 3 years old. > > Note that this is what compilers you can use to build Cabal, not what > compilers Cabal can build libraries for. > > > Thanks > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > cabal-devel mailing list > cabal-devel@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
