2014/1/23 Páli Gábor János <pali.ga...@gmail.com>: > Well, there was no GHC release since April 2013, what else one could expect? > :-)
I would definitely not expect things basically 1.5 years old... > Power users use GHC HEAD, so probably they do not need to wait for HP. > [...] All the other users use HP, so they probably prefer stability over > features. IMHO, if one really cares about stability so much more than having something in a sensibly stable *and* recent state, one probably shouldn't update anything at all. That's basically the philosophy of RHEL etc., but I don't see the HP in that arena. From my POV, the HP should provide something as recent and consistent as possible, while keeping the pain of using it low, but not necessarily at zero. The notion of "bug-free SW" is an illusion, no matter how long we wait. If there is a bug in the HP, so be it: Just release a 2014.2.0.1 version soon then. > [...] Although FreeBSD 10.0 now includes Clang as default compiler, I still > have not switched to it -- that is, we still use GCC 4.6 or later > there. Although this is a totally subjective feeling (based on the very subjective impression on the installed user base), I think that a good out-of-the-box support for Macs is more important than FreeBSD. And what exactly does it mean that "we still use GCC 4.6" when Clang is the default on FreeBSD 10.0? _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
