On 14 October 2013 05:29, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends — > > Deep apologies for being so out of touch the last two months(*). > > In theory, we should be rev'ing up to produce Haskell Platform 2013.4.0.0, > but I'd like to explore our options at this time: > > 1) Proceed as normal: Such a release would use GHC 7.6.3, as did HP > 2013.2.0.0, since that is still the current GHC release. Hence all the core > library versions would remain the same, and by my rough eyeballing it, half > the platform libraries would remain the same. The only big change might be > OpenGL/GLUT libs, which has bumped a major version... though I don't know if > that API change is too great or not. Given the time frame, we are unlikely > to have any additional packages. > > This stance brings up the issue that 7.6.3, out of the box, won't work with > Xcode 5, and hence the upcoming release of OS X Mavericks (10.9). > > 2) Delay a month: This would give us time to consider new packages, which > would make the release somewhat more valuable. However, a December release > is hard due to holidays, so likelihood would be late December, or January > release.
As the maintainer of FGL, I'd be interested in doing a new release with "real" Show and Read instances, etc. if I know when I'd need to have it done by. > > 3) Ask GHC Central to produce 7.6.4: This would incorporate the changes > needed work with Xcode 5. This would clearly involve a month delay as in #2. > > 4) Skip it: We could just decide that 2013.4.0.0 doesn't offer enough value > to run the process now, and simply focus our efforts this cycle on improving > the infrastructure that builds HP. > > Thoughts? I'm particularly interested to hear from HP library maintainers to > know if there was/is something important to get out in an HP ASAP. I'd also > like to better understand what our Xcode5 options are, and if/how/when we > could see the latest cabal in the platform. > > Again, sorry that this small HP timing crisis is mostly my fault, > > — Mark > > (*) At least my excuse is that I was writing music with Haskell for those > two months! > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com http://IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
