It is the aim of HP to get onto a very predictable schedule. As evidenced by the note at Debian, staying on track is really important. I really want this HP to come out in May, and as that means that we basically have to have candidates ready within the next two weeks (if not one week), I don't see how 7.4.2 is a possibility, unless it is shipping this week, there are strong reasons to switch to it, and GHC believes it is a very solid release.
> I'd argue waiting for 7.4.2. There are some pretty nice fixes in > there for some reasonably serious bugs. > That said, are these bug issues that existed in 7.0.4? If so, they were not show stoppers then. Are they bugs that would impeded the average developer's work? Keeping in mind that the audience of HP, are these bugs things that should be show stoppers? Or, are they only bugs in recently introduced features and won't affect the bulk of code? To give some examples: A bug causing bad character encoding errors for normal IO on some percentage of systems would be a show-stopper. A bug in class declarations at the ghci prompt probably wouldn't be. If there is argument that 7.4.1 isn't good enough to ship in HP, then we must consider shipping 2012.2.0.0 with 7.0.4 as a serious option, over waiting for 7.4.2. In any event, I don't know what the bugs we're discussing are. Anyone? - Mark
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