If the new shake tooling really means the release cycles will be faster with HP 7.8 series, i"m all for 7.8.1 HP :)
On Sunday, March 30, 2014, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote: > *happy *bumped to* 1.19.3* > *alex *bumped to* 3.1.3* > *haddock *bumped to* 2.14.1* > > *- but question about tying to GHC release still open: The concern is > since GHC ships with it's doc built with the haddock executable it ships, > will we have problems building the rest of the docs with a later haddock -- > and having all the cross references work?* > > > As for GHC 7.8.2 - Where is the plan for 7.8.2 documented? It is barely > mentioned in the GHC mailing list, and no mention in the GHC trac wiki, and > the issues milestone has scant info. > > I'm very reluctant to hold out for an unknown GHC release. Unless we have > good reason to think that GHC 7.8.1 is a bad release and will leave scads > of people with broken build systems.... I'd like to continue to plan on > releasing HP in mid May (so on schedule for 2014.2.0.0). As such, unless > the turn of 7.8.2 comes within a week or two of 7.8.1 - let's stick with > 7.8.1. > > Finally - note that part of my big push to totally re-write the Haskell > Platform is so that we can all feel more confident turning a version more > quickly if we need. If 7.8.2 comes out this Summer, and we think it is an > important enough improvement - we can turn HP too. > > - Mark > > > >
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