We're planning to continue make minimal fixes to 4.08, and
at some point release 4.08.2. It's hard to get to a stable point,
and 4.08 is pretty solid, so the best plan seems to be to
continue to fix it -- even though that involves some extra work on
our part to find bugs that have (probably) already been fixed
somewhere higher up.
In short: 4.08.2 should be solider than 4.08.1, whereas the next full
release will be more like 4.08.0. (but it'll have more features too)
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: George Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
| Sent: 02 November 2000 16:34
| To: Simon Marlow
| Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; GHC bugs (E-mail)
| Subject: Re: Why is variable out of scope?
|
|
| Simon Marlow wrote:
| [snip]
| > > I stopped trying to compile GHC from CVS ages ago when I was
| > > getting unexplained
| > > core dumps which apparently could only be fixed by
| > > reinstalling gcc/binutils . . .
| >
| > And that's our fault?
| [snip]
| I've no idea whose fault it is. I think there are various
| complications about whether or not one should use the
| system ld/ar utilities with gcc which _may_ be to blame,
| but i think I gave up on investigating this.
|
| In any case ghc4.08 is a pretty good release which has
| everything I need and does indeed seem to be comparatively free
| of bugs, so there's little temptation to upgrade. It's also good
| that other people can compile UniForM without going through the
| hassle of getting a CVS release of GHC compiled.
|
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