2013/3/10 Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> > (which is really a version constraint hell, not sure why cabal takes the > fall...). > Same reason why the messenger gets shot, I guess :)
This is perhaps a good moment to reiterate that Haskell Platform exists to > create a clear, stable, "it just works", and "you can count on it" > distribution - and so by construction does not generally contain the latest > hotness. > I'm perfectly fine with this, let's wait. Lennart > > - Mark > > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Gregory Collins > <g...@gregorycollins.net>wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Lennart Kolmodin <kolmo...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> binary just had a major upgrade and version 0.7 was released, covering a >>> few but very useful features. blog post >>> here<http://lennartkolmodin.blogspot.ru/2013/03/binary-07.html> >>> . >>> >>> binary is bundled with GHC, so GHC 7.8 will upgrade to this new version >>> of binary. >>> GHC 7.6.2 however was released with the older binary 0.5.1.1. >>> >>> The next HP, 2013.2.0.0, will use GHC 7.6.2 as I understand it, >>> therefore the old version of binary. >>> The HP will eventually upgrade to a more recent version of binary when >>> it will use GHC 7.8 or later. >>> My question is whether HP would like to upgrade before that happens. >>> >>> Two approaches could be taken. >>> >>> 1. Add binary-0.7. There will be two versions of binary in HP. >>> 2. Replace binary-0.5.1.1 with binary-0.7 in the source of GHC >>> 7.6.2. Requires a little bit of work, but the installers for HP would >>> install only one version of binary. However, distros who want to support >>> the HP might install GHC 7.6.2 first and then all packages, meaning that >>> they would end up with two versions of binary anyway (i.e. approach (1) >>> above). >>> >>> >>> What do you think? Upgrade or wait until the new binary naturally gets >>> into the HP through a new GHC version? If upgrade, which approach? >>> >>> Will the HP after the upcoming one use GHC 7.8? In that case it might >>> only be 6 months more wait and it'd resolve itself naturally. >>> >> >> I think for GHC boot packages we should ship with the same version that >> ships with GHC. >> >> -- >> Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-platform mailing list >> Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org >> http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform >> >> >
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