On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Felipe Lessa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > there > > 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
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