On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:35 AM, George Colpitts <george.colpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't see the point of releasing a new Platform version every > X months if it doesn't add significant capability or fix significant bugs.
I can only comment on this from my perspective again. On FreeBSD, we (are trying to) track the Haskell Platform specifications strictly and it is not worth the effort to have multiple versions of the same package (I have been already providing binary packages for 2 architectures and 4 majors versions), so we are basically "locked" to the versions of the HP libraries and tools. For example, I could have appreciated a new release of HP, since it would have allowed me to update the ports for the ALUT and OpenAL package as they depend on OpenGL >= 2.9.0.0. Similarly, a newer version of alex and happy are also required by some of the maintained packages, but until they are not updated as part of the Platform, I cannot really update them. (Unless if I decided to patch them to work with the older versions -- if I could.) Over 530 maintained packages, it is becoming a quite interesting game if the base set of libraries (but curiously, not the compiler) are lagging a year behind. _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
