Does not build on GHC-7.4

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Does not build on GHC-7.4

Closed this issue 10 years ago · 3 comments

https://travis-ci.org/diagrams/diagrams-rasterific

It looks as though FontyFruity, Rasterific, and diagrams-rasterific would need looser lower bounds on base, directory, and containers. It's not clear to me how easy or hard this would be. containers definitely causes compile-time errors in FontyFruity due to renamed modules.

Answer 1 · 2014-09-19T14:54:36.000Z

Aren't we dropping support for 7.4 soon?

Answer 2 · 2014-09-19T15:07:36.000Z

Good question. Do you think we should? I'm OK either way. New Debian stable, with GHC-7.6, should be out by the time we release next.

For this issue, I just thought I should write down what I knew about the build failures where it's easy to find.

Answer 3 · 2014-09-19T15:32:54.000Z

I think we should drop support for 7.4. If I remember correctly there are a few small things in haasn's code that were introduced in 7.6. These would not be hard to fix, but it would be nice not to have to. If for some reason New Debian stable is delayed, and we are ready to release 1.3, then we can revisit. I agree that it is a good idea to document build failures as issues.