On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Ian Lynagh <ig...@earth.li> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Due to some problems with the handling of ^C in ghci, we are planning to > do a 6.10.3 release. > > The idea is that, rather than being a full-blown release process, > including all the various fixes that have been made since 6.10.2, we > will only do what is necessary to resolve the ^C issue. By keeping the > changes to a minimum, we will minimise the amount of testing, > release-note writing, etc that is necessary. > > An exception to this rule is that we will probably also rebundle time in > the bindists, as that has little chance of breaking anything else. > > > > There are actually two problems with ^C. One is due to the changes in > the signal handling in ghci, and we will fix that. The other is that, on > some platforms (including x86/Linux), the interaction between editline > and GHC means that pressing ^C causes a segfault. Given all the other > issues that people have had with editline, we plan to use haskeline in > 6.10.3 instead. We already planned to do this for 6.12, but we think > that it makes sense to do it sooner rather than later. The plan is: > > * Add haskeline and deps as boot packages > > * Move the interactive modules from the ghc package to the ghc-bin > package. This means that the ghc package will not depend on the new > boot packages, so there will not be any problems with upgrading them. > > > Any comments? > > > Thanks > Ian >
Would this be a good time to add the "time" package too, or has that issue been resolved? Alex _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
