Drop GHC 8.2/base-4.10 in next major release
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 70/100
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- github-actions, haskell
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd
Research direction
Start by inspecting .github/workflows/main.yml around lines 64-67 and search the repository for references to mappend and GHC 8.2/base-4.10 support. Done means the obsolete compatibility references and the specified CI configuration are removed for the next major release.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
GHC 8.2.2 was released on 2017-07-22, which will be 10 years ago next year (see https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/libraries/version-history)
When dropping it, remove
- All references to
mappend.Semigroupis a superclass ofMonoidsince base-4.11 - This little thing in the CI https://github.com/haskell/containers/blob/14a6ce3c3f6c97b6caa25d6b889a42d58a444f4c/.github/workflows/main.yml#L64-L67
- Dominant language
- Haskell
- Stars
- 355
- Forks
- 194
- Avg merge
- 2d 6h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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