i hit a funny issue with the near term -hb patch, i'll try to track it down, but reverting it allowed me to get a mac build of 8.0 master in shape
On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> wrote: > Ben, thanks much for the update. > > It's not sad that you'll be at ICFP - I wish I could be there too! :) > Historically ICFP has provided much of the juice that GHC runs on. > Enjoy, and good luck with the release. > > Regards, > Yitz > > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > > Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> writes: > > > >> Are there any updates on 8.0.2? Thanks! > >> > >> To put things in the perspective of yesod-based commercial GHC users: > >> Due to #12130, GHC 8 is useless to us until 8.0.2. So for us this is > >> the most important GHC release in years. > >> > > At the moment I'm trying to work out some issues with merging #12466. > > This is the last issue on my queue other than doing basic build testing > > on the other architectures. Sadly next week I'll be at ICFP so it's > > unlikely that much progress will be made until the following week. > > > >> In our particular case, our products are now being held back in very > >> concrete ways, because there are some critical libraries we can no > >> longer update. The ecosystem has moved on to GHC 8, and we have been > >> left behind. > >> > > Thanks for the data-point! It's very helpful for prioritization to know > > these sorts of things. Don't hesitate to bring this up this sort of > > thing early in the future. > > > >> In anticipation of the release, and after the delay in the RC builds, > >> we are now trying to compile GHC from source on multiple platforms > >> just so that we can already start on all the infrastructure work we > >> need to do for this major upgrade. That way we hopefully will be able > >> to sprint from the gate as soon as there is an actual release. But > >> obviously we would prefer to use RC builds for that. > >> > >> Thanks to all on the GHC team for all your great work! > > > > Thanks Yitz! > > > > Cheers, > > > > - Ben > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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