On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Andres Löh <andres.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I can understand the motivation of this proposal, but I'm slightly worried:
+1 > (2) Simply because GHC 7.8 is itself so long delayed and so full of > new features, I think it's realistic to assume that quite a few > library glitches will appear even after it's released. Also, GHC bugs > may be found only after formal release (despite all the hammering, the > use of GHC pre release isn't quite comparable with the amount of > testing it gets afterwards; IMHO, there might very well be need for a > GHC 7.8.2). I'm all for trying to get an HP based on GHC 7.8 out as > possible, but how soon would that actually happen, realistically? > Sooner than 6 months from now? I do not think so. Waiting a couple of months after 7.8.1 is released to let the dust settle will not hurt anyway. _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
