Re: Reason for fixing minimum bootstrap version at 2 major releases ago?

2016-12-13 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 12:48:25PM -0500, Shea Levy wrote: > I'm wondering, why do we require ghc to be bootstrappable with the past > 2 major releases instead of just the past 1? Is it a common case that > someone is compiling GHC but can't easily get the latest release? Well, I can't speak

Reason for fixing minimum bootstrap version at 2 major releases ago?

2016-12-13 Thread Shea Levy
Hi all, I'm wondering, why do we require ghc to be bootstrappable with the past 2 major releases instead of just the past 1? Is it a common case that someone is compiling GHC but can't easily get the latest release? Thanks, Shea signature.asc Description: PGP signature