On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd not oppose this if we can get a clear picture that noone is any >> longer running ghc 6.4. If they are, then it seems worth allowing >> them to continue using updated versions of darcs. The trouble, of >> course, is that it's very, very hard to know what compiler folks are >> using. Maybe we could integrate some sort of optional phone-home >> capability in the build sequence, which could report on what compilers >> are being used? > > Does anybody have suggestions on how we could go about this? Trent has > posted some useful facts about Debian/Ubuntu clearly long past GHC 6.4 > usage. A phone home feature and harvesting the data seems like it might > be far off. > > In the meantime, would an informal poll do the trick? Could you let us > know if you are using GHC 6.4 or somebody you know is (and you think > that upgrading to a later GHC would be too difficult?). Thanks!
A good start would be to contact the folks running the ghc 6.4 buildbots, to see if they care about those machines, or if they just installed an old version of ghc to broaden our test base. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users