Re: Removing old ghc* packages

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

There was a comment on Github by Sergey Fedorov that GHC 7 should be
restored, since it is the only version that builds on older macOS
versions.

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 4:25 AM David Holland
<dholland-pkgusers%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 02:14:31PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>  > 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@.
>
> For the record, should anyone ever want to bring these back as part of
> trying to restore a bootstrap chain, I have (somewhere) a rework of
> lang/ghc (which was ghc6) that made its C bootstrap more robust. I
> don't remember what the state of bootstrapping the ghc7 package with
> ghc6 was, though, other than there being something problematic about
> it.
>
> --
> David A. Holland
> dholland%netbsd.org@localhost



-- 
Benny