As far as I can see, the proposed fixes are all compiler and RTS fixes. (At least, it should be easy to restrict 6.8.3 to that. Austin?)
So, I don’t think it would affect the packages. And of what use is a platform that includes a compiler of which we know that it has serious problems? Manuel Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]>: > Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: >> What kind of version tweaks are you thinking about? (Afaics, the GHC >> bundled libraries don't have any version bumps.) > > Well for one thing, wouldn't the version of base be bumped? > > If the bugs fixed in 7.8.3 affect any packages in the platform, > we would want to make whatever changes are needed to make sure > that the fixes work for them - at least bumping base. Then > everything would need to be re-built and re-tested. And if > no packages in the platform are affected, then given the > ridiculous delay of the platform release already, it's harder > justify waiting any longer. Like I said - it would be a difficult > decision (and not mine to make). > > -Yitz > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
