Re: Removing old ghc* packages

[PHO <pho%cielonegro.org@localhost>]

On 1/30/25 00:22, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> 	Hello Thomas.  For purposes of bootstrapping, is NetBSD considered a supported platform?
>
> -thanks
> -Brian

I'm not wiz@ but yes, NetBSD is absolutely supported. Not that upstream 
cares much about it, but it's the OS I've always tested and used GHC on, 
and kept fixing NetBSD-specific issues and upstreaming patches! In fact 
most of the GHC bootkits we're using in pkgsrc were initially 
cross-compiled from NetBSD (by me).

> 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