Discuss - drop support for GHC-7.6?

[bergey]

Building on 7.6 has been impossible since
71f6539 which added a dependency on
cubicbezier, which requires containers >= 0.5.3, whereas GHC-7.6 has
template-haskell built against containers 0.5.0.

Are folks OK dropping 7.6 now?

@kuribas - Is it possible for cubicbezier to support containers-0.5.0? How hard would it be?

Tangentially, we should probably restrict our travis builds to template-haskell installed. The failed builds here try to rebuild template-haskell with newer containers, which I doubt is ever an acceptable solution.

[byorgey]

Yeah, I'm fine with dropping 7.6, especially if we wait until after GHC 8.0 lands to cut a major new release (which seems basically guaranteed at this point).

I wonder if we should start being explicit about which stack resolvers we support.

[byorgey]

I notice you didn't remove the line listing GHC 7.4, I assume we should remove that as well?

[bergey]

Yes, we should certainly remove the line for GHC 7.4. It's in allow_failures, so it doesn't bug me as much =).

I'd like to test on Stackage LTS-3; not sure beyond that. That should fill the hole where we don't have HP-2015. I haven't yet tried to make travis run some tests with stack & some with cabal. It shouldn't be very hard. I'll have a PR soon about testing -builder with stack, since it hasn't passed CI in ages.

[jeffreyrosenbluth]

Fine by me

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