"Boespflug, Mathieu" <m...@tweag.io> writes: > Hi Gerhom, > > On 14 December 2017 at 00:19, Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Mathieu: >> >> I think the points about better tooling for documenting the correct >> claims in the release process are well taken. Updating the release >> notes manually leaves way too much room for error. >> Indeed, the release notes have historically been a massive headache. Happily, I wrote a bit of the necessary tooling to fix this a few weeks ago [1].
[1] e4dc2cd51902a8cd83476f861cf52996e5adf157 >> However, I think you are incorrect that GHC 8.2.1 and 8.2.2 did not >> have cabal-install 1.24 support. They did. it works with them. > > They did, and indeed Stack too worked just fine with them, but that > was assuming that integer-gmp-1.0.1.0 really was what was shipped in > the tarballs, not what it was on Hackage (until it got recently > revised). I don't know which version of integer-gmp-1.0.1.0 was the > intended one. They both have the same version number and neither seems > more authoritative than the other to me. Had the Hackage one been the > one that shipped, then I'm not sure that cabal-install-1.24 would have > worked. Stack broke the moment what was on Hackage and what was in GHC > bindists did not line up anymore. And with release notes mentioning > incorrect version numbers, harder still to tell. > I agree that the cabal files uploaded to Hackage should match what is released or, if not, there should be a very good reason for divergence. [snip] > >> The general motivation of making a "feature freeze" more of a "freeze >> all the moving parts, really" I do agree with. Having a real freeze is >> part of a better release process, and it should allow all the >> downstream consumers of everything more time to really catch up. This >> is just one instance of that need. > > Agreed. > Also agreed. Cheers, - Ben
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