Re: Removing old ghc* packages

[Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost>]

	Hello Thomas.  For purposes of bootstrapping, is NetBSD considered a supported platform?

-thanks
-Brian

On Jan 29,  2:14pm, Thomas Klausner wrote:
} Subject: Removing old ghc* packages
} This is a heads-up that we'll be removing the following packages:
} 
} lang/ghc7
} lang/ghc80
} lang/ghc84
} lang/ghc88
} lang/ghc810
} lang/ghc90
} 
} (broken on NetBSD 10) in a week. These packages were previously used
} for bootstrapping newer ghc versions. Nowadays the recommended method
} is to cross-compile the same, previous, or second-to-last version on a
} supported platform.  and keeping these packages working is not
} useful. Also, some current Haskell code won't even compile with them.
} 
} (Please note that even ghc7 was not bootstrappable from C.)
} 
} This was approved by the MAINTAINER pho@.
} 
} Cheers,
}  Thomas