Eric Kow wrote: > I'm definitely keen to hear if there are ways we can loosen this > without hurting Debian folks too much. Maybe Darcs has reached a > point where we can afford for people on Debian stable to just stick > with old Darcs?
Hmm. I use Debian stable on an every day basis in several places. As Jason mentioned, on virtual servers. And at home, on an old but not-all-that-old computer that can no longer sustain KDE on Debian testing. I have not needed to compile darcs HEAD lately on any of those machines. But I might need to at some point. I imagine that this is a common enough scenario that it would be a good idea for darcs to support it. In addition, in my opinion it always should be possible to backport at least the current stable version of darcs to any version of Debian that is still supported - including even old-stable, as long as it has not officially reached End-Of-Life. I still have several virtual servers on old-stable that have not been de-commissioned yet. (Currently working on getting rid of one of them.) I don't think it needs to be supported to build HEAD on old-stable, though, only the current stable version of darcs. > Dumping old GHC would make me happy. Yes, supporting a range of platform versions is not easy. But darcs is version control - people's data is at stake. We need not only the ability to reconstruct our data with some time-consuming process; we need the ability for our data to be actively and conveniently accessible on all platforms that are in active use. The good news is that Haskell support on Debian and other Linux distributions is improving dramatically. I think that the burden of backward-compatibility on LInux will gradually but significantly reduce with time. Thanks, Yitz _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
