Herbert brought this question to my attention earlier - what's the cutoff date for boot libraries?
IMO, I think boot library updates can happen until the actual branch in Oct. I'm planning on pushing the Applicative-Monad patch today, which will require some upstream coordination as well, including a patch to Cabal I believe. Short answer: yes, that'll be fine. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it OK if I release Cabal-1.18.0.1 on Monday if we want it to ship > with GHC 7.8? 1.18.0.1 is a tiny bugfix release on top of 1.18.0. > > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones > <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> Yes I will try to review it this week. (This is the first time I've had >> access to the code.) >> >> Simon >> >> | -----Original Message----- >> | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] >> | Sent: 09 September 2013 16:25 >> | To: Trevor Elliott >> | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-d...@haskell.org; glasgow-haskell- >> | us...@haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones >> | Subject: Re: 7.8 Release Update >> | >> | Excellent. Simon, are you privvy to this work at all? We lightly >> | talked about it last week, but I'm not sure if you've reviewed it. Or >> | perhaps Pedro or someone else could if we have time (I seem to >> | remember he drew up the initial design points.) >> | >> | On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Trevor Elliott <tre...@galois.com> >> | wrote: >> | > Hi Austin, >> | > >> | > Iavor and I have got the data kinds syntax changes up to date with >> | master, >> | > on the data-kind-syntax branch. The -XDataKinds section of the manual >> | has >> | > been updated to describe the new syntax. During a validate run, there >> | were >> | > some problems building haddock, so I'm going to look into that >> | tonight. >> | > >> | > There are tests for the data kind syntax in the test suite, currently >> | on the >> | > data-kind-syntax branch. >> | > >> | > Other than the haddock fix, I think that we're ready to go. >> | > >> | > Thanks! >> | > >> | > --trevor >> | > >> | > >> | > On Sun 08 Sep 2013 04:27:33 PM PDT, Austin Seipp wrote: >> | >> >> | >> Friends, >> | >> >> | >> After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the >> | 7.8 >> | >> feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is >> | the >> | >> beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow. >> | >> >> | >> Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my >> | >> notes tentatively say Oct. 9th.) This will give us a few weeks of >> | >> straight bugfixing. >> | >> >> | >> Don't let this scare you too much. We're doing this at the beginning >> | >> of the week so we have time to sort things out. Bug fixes will of >> | >> course continuously be welcome until the 7.8 branch. >> | >> >> | >> However, for pending features, I'd like a status update. Everyone >> | >> mentioned below, please reply to clarify anything: >> | >> >> | >> * Iavor Diatchki and SPJ are working together on the type-nats- >> | simple >> | >> branch. I believe this will hopefully land in time. Iavor, SPJ - can >> | >> you comment here? >> | >> >> | >> * Trevor and Iavor are also working on kinds without data. Any word >> | >> here? >> | >> >> | >> * Geoffrey is currently moving, but he says the SIMD work and new >> | >> template-haskell work will land by the end of this week, which is >> | >> great. >> | >> >> | >> * Patrick Palka has a few loose ends to tie off for the parallel >> | >> compilation driver. I talked to him today, and after Andreas >> | committed >> | >> his bugfix to base, I believe everything is now working, with the >> | >> deadlocks sorted out. Patrick, can you confirm? We can get this >> | merged >> | >> ASAP if so. >> | >> >> | >> * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality, >> | >> etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what >> | >> else needs to be done. I know Pedro committed the work to make manual >> | >> Typeable instances an error, which is great. >> | >> >> | >> * Luite and Edsko will be talking about some final changes to the >> | >> hooks patch, and afterwords it can hopefully be integrated. I'll keep >> | >> up with them this week. >> | >> >> | >> * I am currently working on integrating the Applicative-Monad >> | >> warning, but this requires some upstream patches for the build to >> | >> work. However, we still need to sync several upstream libraries, and >> | >> this will be happening over the next few weeks. Therefore, I may >> | >> commit it, and incrementally fix validation errors as time goes on >> | and >> | >> me and Herbert sync upstreams. >> | >> >> | >> IMO, most of these look to be in good shape, I think. >> | >> >> | >> If you *do not think you'll make it by the 16th*, please let me know. >> | >> We can possibly still land it the week of the 16th, provided I know >> | >> ASAP. But we really really need to know, because many people will be >> | >> gone the following week. >> | >> >> | >> In the following few days, I'm hoping going to finish off everything >> | I >> | >> can in the patch queue, and fix my remaining bugs, and investigate >> | >> Dynamic GHCi in particular. >> | >> >> | >> Again, if you don't think you can make it on the 16th, but still >> | >> within the week, we can of discuss it. >> | >> >> | > >> | >> | >> | >> | -- >> | Regards, >> | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-d...@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs -- Regards, Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
