On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But that is true of GHC as well. We need to stop having the attitude of > "Platform is for newcomers / GHC is for heavyweights". It is perfectly fine > to announce "GHC 7.10.1 is out - you can install it from Platform 7.10.1 > which is a complete installer for your OS with core and standard libraries, > and tools; or if you prefer you can get the minimal binary compiler build. > As always, not all packages on Hackage will be compatible." Then our > recommendations on to users on IRC are about which version is best for > their needs, not "don't install platform, you won't be able to get lens to > compile..." > The lens package (alongside every other package I maintain that is incurred as a dependency of lens) has very deliberately support all Haskell Platform releases for at least 3 current major GHC releases, often at great expense to the API. No offense, but I don't think lens is the culprit here. -Edward
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