On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.cou...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to solicit opinions on what we should do for our next HP > release. > > The main issue is GHC. We have GHC 7.2.1 out now, but it's fairly widely > agreed that it is not ready for an HP release. We are expecting GHC > 7.4.1 towards the end of the year [1] and we do not expect there to be a > 7.2.2 release at all [2]. > > Therefore the obvious choice is to just use GHC 7.0.4. Indeed the GHC > devs say they made this release with the HP in mind. > > So the only question is whether we do a minor release with 7.0.4 or if > we do a major release and include non-bugfix updates of the other > packages. > > According to our general plan we ought to be doing a major release > around now. > > Opinions?
Stick to the plan. I think a regular release schedule is more important than trying to fudge our schedule all the time to try to sync with GHC. People who want bleeding-edge stuff can easily get it anyway. Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
