I have a patch for making mappend = (<>) that I need to port to the new Git tree. The main reason it hasn't gone in yet is because I don't know how many client libraries it would break. It was actually agreed on before 7.0.0 (perhaps even 6.12) but somehow never made it in.
2011/5/6 Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>: > Simon and I have just had a chat about the upcoming GHC 7.2 The basic idea > for 7.2 is that > > · It’ll include lots of new code (see below) > > · It’ll be the first seriously-working release of DPH > > · But because of the new code, it may not be a stable as our main > annual release. > > · We’ll settle it down, and release a (hopefully nice and stable) > 7.4 around ICFP > > > > The new stuff we expect to be in 7.2: > > · New coercion representation (ghc-new-co branch). Simon PJ is > doing this; nearly finished. > > · Monad comprehensions. Already merged. > > · Plugins. A relatively small patch, and ready to go. Simon PJ to > review and merge. > > · New generic deriving (ghc-generics branch). Pedro is leading > this; nearly done. Simon PJ will merge when he and Pedro are happy. > > · Filename encoding (encoding branch). Max is leading; Simon M has > reviewed. Max: please merge this in when you are ready. > > · Safe Haskell. David Terei and David Mazieres; see > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/SafeHaskell. Nearly done. Simon > M to review. > > · Data Parallel Haskell. Manuel, Ben, Gabi, Roman. > > Timescale: Simon M is tied up most of June, so we propose: > > · All merging done by end May. (This is a couple of weeks later > than we were previously advertising, but you can see why when you look at > the list above. And there is nothing directly pressing us to make this > release.) > > · Fork the tree. > > · Squeeze out regressions > > · Make release candidate > > One difference from darcs is that > > After forking, bug-fixes for the release should be made on the 7.2.1 branch, > validated, and merged back into master > > (Reason: it’s not easy to cherry-pick patches from the master to merge into > the branch.) > > > > Sound ok? Yell if not. > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > Cvs-ghc mailing list > Cvs-ghc@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc > > -- Push the envelope. Watch it bend. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
