Tighten bounds on base on latest release

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Tighten bounds on base on latest release

vmchale opened this issue 4 years ago · 5 comments

See Hackage CI: https://matrix.hackage.haskell.org/#/package/xmobar

Thanks :)

Answer 1 · 2020-06-15T18:43:36.000Z

Thanks Vanessa. @psibi, looking at those, seems that in the newest StdinReader we're using `<>`, which is not directly available in 8.2 and 8.0. I am not sure how important is to keep compatibility with those versions for our users, or if the fix is not too much hassle to be worth it...

Answer 2 · 2020-06-16T04:28:12.000Z

I think keeping support for last 3 GHC versions should be good enough. The Hackage CI shows me that it's works for the last 4 GHC versions. What do you think ?

Answer 3 · 2020-06-16T12:46:38.000Z

I too think that dropping 8.0 and 8.2 is probably not a big deal.

In general I believe it's a good idea to at least support the version of GHC that debian-stable uses (otherwise it might be too abrupt of a change). According to here, they use GHC 8.4.4 so it should be all good!

Answer 4 · 2020-06-16T12:49:33.000Z

i am good with that, provided no distribution out there really, really needs us to support something older. but even in those cases, if any, i guess they could use a previous version of xmobar.

Answer 5 · 2020-06-26T23:09:11.000Z

the new 0.35.1 release tightens the bounds to 8.4 or better. thanks!