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config-ini needs a containers dependency update #389

Closed erikd closed 3 months ago

erikd commented 7 months ago

PR is https://github.com/aisamanra/config-ini/pull/50

Only a metadata edit needed.

andreasabel commented 7 months ago

Is containers-0.7 already a thing? This bump does not feel urgent, a priori.

erikd commented 7 months ago

The current version of containers is 0.7: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers

andreasabel commented 7 months ago

Yes, but there are thousands of packages that don't allow it yet, e.g. aeson: https://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/containers

erikd commented 7 months ago

I currently have:

allow-newer:
    aeson:containers

in my cabal file.

The way I see it is that the upgrade has to start somewhere. I suspect the widely used packages like aeson will be updated at some point, but the less commonly used packages like this one may require some encouragement.

phadej commented 7 months ago

This is my personal opinion (i.e. not as a Hackage Trustee):

The way I see it is that the upgrade has to start somewhere.

With GHC. Currently even GHC master is not updated to use containers-0.7, so it's possible that GHC-9.10 won't bundle it. Why support containers-0.7 where a lot of more complex setups (say, the one using inspection-testing) won't be able to use that library version anyway?

So far it was GHC which (for example recently) forced adoption of text-2.0/2.1, bytestring-0.11,0.12, deepseq-1.5 etc, and that worked out alright, and as ghc package depends on containers it's really should be one of the first ones adopting the new major version.

Bodigrim commented 3 months ago

Fixed in https://hackage.haskell.org/package/config-ini-0.2.7.0/revisions/ (and tested with GHC 9.10 alpha 1).