Mark, Did you see this thread?
Manuel Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]>: > OK then. It's just a question of updating some scripts, > rebuilding and retesting. If these are serious generable > usability issues, you are right that it sounds compelling. > Still, it will add time, so Mark will have to decide. > > Thanks, > Yitz > > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
