Re: LTS-4.0

[Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 02:12:49PM +0000, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
> Issue is with aeson. It have some pathes to conditionally compile TH
> module and conditionally use -threaded flag. I found no rationale, and
> these patches do not apply on aeson-0.10.0.0.
> 
> Why are them? What exactly they fix? Are they still needed, in
> times of ghc-7.10?

The point of the patches/flags was to allow aeson to build and
run the testsuite on every possible architecture that could do
those things.

Since the set of architectures that matter and the set of
architectures that can do Template Haskell have changed, we
may not care about these things anymore.