Hi, I can only repeat to make patch releases as good as possible without referring to (a) future release(s).
Only patch releases are sufficiently stable and may be used longer (by distros). I'm still at ghc-6.12.3 although that one didn't get the patch in for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3840 ghc-7.10.1 has problem http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4527 The stable ghc-6.10.4 will soon be unusable (many hackage packages that no longer support this version) and it's container package does not have Data.Map.foldrWithKey (http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4842). As you write yourself: "bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!" This also applies to unfortunate features. Cheers Christian Am 25.02.2011 14:08, schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: > Dear Haskell Platform gurus > > > > Christian Maeder would like GHC’s lambda-pattern warning change merged > into the 7.0.2 GHC that you are about to release in the Haskell Platform. > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4905 > > > > By default we don’t do this, since is a specification change. Moreover, > it’s very late in the day, since we have a Release Candidate out for > 7.0.2. But he asked, so I’m asking you on his behalf. I suppose that > if you say “please do” we can delay 7.0.2 a bit, merge the patch, and > you can re-test your HP. > > > > Please let us know. Thanks. > > > Simon _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
