Excerpts from Michael Snoyman's message of Fri Dec 07 00:29:14 -0800 2012: > Let me give a more extreme example: suppose that the bug in text hadn't > simply been slower compile times, but instead it segfaulted every time you > appended two empty strings. What would be our response to users? Should we > tell them to stick with the current HP until the next one is released, and > hope they don't trigger the bug? Should they try and convince their whole > system to get rebuilt?
I think the pragmatic solution here is to roll a platform point-release, just fixing the particular major bug. Edward _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform