On 2014-05-27 at 12:47:53 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > 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?
There's not been any change yet to base in the ghc-7.8 branch since the 7.8.2 release: http://git.haskell.org/packages/base.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ghc-7.8 as you can see from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Libraries/VersionHistory it's happened in the past already, that 'base' was not bumped for every (minor) GHC release. It's rather the exception when `base` version bumps are performed for minor GHC releases. > 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. While I appreciate there may be packages affected by GHC 7.8.2/7.8.3 changes, I still fail to see how artificially bumping base would help here. > 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). _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
