Since 7.10 moved onto a new major version of filepath, a bunch more of module bumps is necessary.
Edward Excerpts from Yitzchak Gale's message of 2015-03-18 08:10:36 -0700: > Moving here from Reddit, as suggested by Herbert. > This a continuation of a thread that started with > Edward Yang's post here: > > http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2014-October/025389.html > > continued here, a few months later: > > http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2014-December/025529.html > > and ended here, in the following month: > > http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2015-January/025551.html > > Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote on Reddit > (http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/2zc2jg/ghc_7101_rc3_is_out_test_it_while_its_fresh/cpindvt) > > > I think I remember what the problem was with your patch (and why it > > wasn't picked up rightaway): you needed tweaks to boot packages such > > as transformers would cause the GHC source-tarball to diverge from > > the officially released upstream packages. One solution would be to > > rather provide an out-of-tree patch a user can apply manually, > > rather than making an official GHC 7.8.5 release with unofficial > > modifications to upstream packages (which would also require some > > administration overhead on the Git level as upstream packages are > > automatically mirrored Git submodules). > > I think Edward's last post (in January, linked above) addressed those > concerns. In summary: release upstream point releases for hpc and > hoopl that only bump the dependencies of base and time, and provide > instance Applicative IO in the GHC sources for 7.8.5 so that no change > is needed for transformers. > > Will that work? Can we go with this? > > Thanks, > Yitz _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
