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jneira opened this issue May 23, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1934
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Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 #1863

jneira opened this issue May 23, 2021 · 3 comments · Fixed by #1934
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jneira commented May 23, 2021

  • Hi, those ghc versions were released quite time ago and bot have 2 new minor versions available and widely used
    • 8.8.2 was released on 2020-01-16
    • 8.10.2 was released on 2020-08-08 and it has not gotten to have stackage lts
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jneira commented May 24, 2021

I would like to know some statistics about ghc downloads per version, to have some numbers on which make the decision, anyone knows where thay could be found?

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konn commented May 24, 2021

I'm strongly against removing 8.10.2 support, as there is known thread-safety issue #1465 for 8.10.-8.10.4, and its fixes in 8.10.5 is not yet released...

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jneira commented May 24, 2021

I'm strongly against removing 8.10.2 support, as there is known thread-safety issue #1465 for 8.10.3-8.10.4, and its fixes in 8.10.5 is not yet released...

Thanks for noting it, this is a good reason to keep it around

@jneira jneira changed the title Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 and/or ghc-8.10.2 Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 ~and/or ghc-8.10.2~ May 24, 2021
@jneira jneira changed the title Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 ~and/or ghc-8.10.2~ Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 ~~and/or ghc-8.10.2~~ May 24, 2021
@jneira jneira changed the title Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 ~~and/or ghc-8.10.2~~ Remove support for ghc-8.8.2 May 24, 2021
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