Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-30 Thread David Roundy
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:16:17PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as far as bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable, but apparently some folks feel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 12:16 +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as far as bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable, but apparently some folks feel strongly

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Mitchell, Neil
Duncan, I believe the major darcs issue is the changed GADT implementation between 6.6, so that neither 6.6 or 6.8 is a superset/subset of the other - leading to a situation where they have to use a common subset of both. Thanks Neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:24 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: Hello, I would like to find out if any darcs users who build from the source are still using ghc 6.6? I'd just like to point out (again ;-) ) than it's not that hard to support older platforms. The only constraint is that people not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Mitchell, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duncan, I believe the major darcs issue is the changed GADT implementation between 6.6, so that neither 6.6 or 6.8 is a superset/subset of the other - leading to a situation where they have to use a common subset of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:17:35AM -, Mitchell, Neil wrote: Duncan, I believe the major darcs issue is the changed GADT implementation between 6.6, so that neither 6.6 or 6.8 is a superset/subset of the other - leading to a situation where they have to use a common subset of both. No,

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:01 AM, David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:17:35AM -, Mitchell, Neil wrote: Duncan, I believe the major darcs issue is the changed GADT implementation between 6.6, so that neither 6.6 or 6.8 is a superset/subset of the other -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Trent W. Buck
David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as far as bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable, but apparently some folks feel strongly about this. Could someone please summarize what code is

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Trent W. Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Roundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as far as bundled versions, it's the desire to *remove* a bundled version that's apparently at issue. I'm not sure why this is considered desirable, but apparently some folks

[Haskell-cafe] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-27 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I would like to find out if any darcs users who build from the source are still using ghc 6.6? If you are such a user, please let me know. Thanks, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org