Thanks. This is helpful. I'll put together the release schedule this evening. Aiming for weekend after next
On Monday, November 14, 2011, Duncan Coutts <dun...@well-typed.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 14:46 -0500, Don Stewart wrote: >> Ok. > > Don, thanks for jumping in. I tried a month back or so to get things > going, and we did make some progress, but my attention has been divided > with lots of tasks in the cabal/hackage-server world. > >> Then the question is: which compiler is GHC HQ blessing as stable at this >> point. GHC 7.0.4 looks like the best bet. > > Yes, previously when I initiated this discussion we all agreed to do a > major release with GHC-7.0.4. We made some progress, Mark Lentczner hit > some problems with OSX. I think (Mark correct me if I'm wrong!) that > those are now solved. > > We agreed on 7.0.4 because at the time 7.2.1 was agreed to be no good > for a HP release (too many bugs e.g. with Safe Haskell). GHC HQ also > told us that there would be no 7.2.2 release at all. That they were > going to concentrate on 7.4.x. > > Now clearly GHC HQ changed their minds on 7.2.2 and are pushing the 7.4 > branch back (I think so they can finish some features they want for > 7.4). > > So now that 7.2.2 is out I'm not sure if we want to revise our plans or > continue with the plan to do a major release with 7.0.4. I don't know > enough about what got fixed in 7.2.2. My inclination would be to > continue with 7.0.4. We've already done most of the work for that. > > BTW, note that it would be a major release, i.e. 2011.4.0.0, not a minor > release like 2011.2.0.2. That's because we're bumping library versions. > We agreed the latter point last time we discussed this on this list. > > So if you want my vote: we should go for a 2011.4.0.0 release as soon as > practical with ghc 7.0.4 and the latest libs. > > -- > Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > >
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