We officially support GHC 8.6+ (and 8.8+ for hledger-web) now.
Hackage matrix builder shows all packages building successfully
with GHC 8.4+, somehow, so we'll adjust the base bound to
allow that but prevent any attempts to build with older GHCs,
Prior to this commit,
- hledger still builds with GHC 8.0
- hledger-ui does if you use the build plan specified by stack8.0.yaml,
but you are likely to hit problems if you let cabal pick one
(https://github.com/jtdaugherty/vty/issues/198 and others)
- hledger-web might, if you could find the right build plan
The hassles are enough and GHC 8.0 is old enough (first released in
2016) that I'm letting it go; 8.2 is the new minimum version for all
hledger packages.
This allows a bunch of cleanups to conditional imports, which I leave
for later.
Also, updated the tested-with minor versions.
in JournalReader.hs. If you still need this, feel free to work on
those errors. But hopefully not, because dropping base 4.8 should
permit some code cleanups.
fail is moving out of Monad and into it's own MonadFail class.
This will be enforced in GHC 8.8 (I think).
base-compat/base-compat-batteries 0.11.0 have adapted to this,
and are approaching stackage nightly
(https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/4802).
hledger is now ready to build with base-compat-batteries 0.11.0, once
all of our deps do (eg aeson). We are still compatible with the older
0.10.x and GHC 7.10.3 as well.
For now we are using both fails:
- new fail (from Control.Monad.Fail), used in our parsers, imported
via base-compat-batteries Control.Monad.Fail.Compat to work with
older GHC versions.
- old fail (from GHC.Base, exported by Prelude, Control.Monad,
Control.Monad.State.Strict, Prelude.Compat, ...), used in easytest's
Test, since I couldn't find their existing fail implementation to update.
To reduce (my) confusion, these are imported carefully, consistently,
and qualified everywhere as Fail.fail and Prelude.fail, with clashing
re-exports suppressed, like so:
import Prelude hiding (fail)
import qualified Prelude (fail)
import Control.Monad.State.Strict hiding (fail)
import "base-compat-batteries" Prelude.Compat hiding (fail)
import qualified "base-compat-batteries" Control.Monad.Fail.Compat as Fail
I should have supported latest brick, to get into stackage nightly.
Now it does.
No upper bound, once again; responding lazily to brick API changes
seems less disruptive overall.
These have been an adhoc mixture of plain text, markdown and org, and
used in each mode at different times. They will now have a definite
format, which for now is markdown. Org was another contender.
[ci skip]
base-compat-batteries provides the same API across more ghc versions
than base-compat does, at the cost of more dependencies. Eg it exports
Prelude.Compat ((<>)) with ghc 7.10/base 4.8, which we expect.
My belief is that several of our deps already require it so the added
cost is not too great. We should probably go back to base-compat when
possible though, eg when we stop supporting ghc 7.10.
We don't need to import Data.Monoid because Prelude.Compat exports "<>"
already. In fact, importing that module causes build failures:
Hledger/Read/Common.hs:725:62: error:
Ambiguous occurrence ‘<>’
It could refer to either ‘Sem.<>’,
imported from ‘Prelude.Compat’ at Hledger/Read/Common.hs:97:1-39
(and originally defined in ‘Data.Semigroup’)
or ‘Data.Monoid.<>’,
imported from ‘Data.Monoid’ at Hledger/Read/Common.hs:110:1-18
Fixes https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/794.
It's rare that my deps break their api or that newer versions must be avoided,
and very common that they release new versions which I must tediously
and promptly test and release hackage revisions for or risk falling out
of stackage. Trying it this way for a bit.
