I definitely agree with what you're saying around some of the features that
require external support such as backpack.
I think my statement was focused more on new language features that don't
require additional support, as with stack getting access to those is as
simple as hopping on the latest
Hi!
On 2017-08-03 at 08:41:59 +0200, Ara Adkins wrote:
[...]
> I nevertheless see `stack` as a huge boon for easing adoption of new
> compiler versions (and hence new language features/extensions).
Since I totally disagree about Stack being beneficial to the quick
adoption of new features,
Glad I could provide some useful thoughts!
> You are to some extent correct; an unwillingness to release before major
> (for some definition of "major") bugs are fixed will inevitably lead to
> slips. However, I think a faster release cycle will make it easier to
> accept releases with such bugs
Bardur Arantsson writes:
> On 2017-08-02 21:26, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
>
>> I'd like to add a few thoughs (or just to underscore the ones you've
>> already brought forth, as the case may be):
>>
> [--snip--]
>> reasons -- I wouldn't presume to know. Also note that this is
On 2017-08-02 21:26, Bardur Arantsson wrote:
> I'd like to add a few thoughs (or just to underscore the ones you've
> already brought forth, as the case may be):
>
[--snip--]
> reasons -- I wouldn't presume to know. Also note that this is
> *basically* how Rust also works, it's just that they
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 4:19 AM Ben Gamari wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just posted a pair of posts on the GHC blog [1,2] laying out some
> thoughts on the GHC release cycle timing [1] and how this relates to the
> in-progress Jenkins build infrastructure [2]. When you
On 2017-08-01 15:05, Ara Adkins wrote:
> Heya,
>
> I very much agree with the thoughts on the variability of the release
> cadence. The following is somewhat of a stream of consciousness as I
> read, so please excuse any lack of coherence.
>
> When you talk about the bugs being significant
Ara Adkins writes:
> Heya,
>
> I very much agree with the thoughts on the variability of the release
> cadence. The following is somewhat of a stream of consciousness as I
> read, so please excuse any lack of coherence.
>
> When you talk about the bugs being significant blockers to
On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:19 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
> I just posted a pair of posts on the GHC blog [1,2] laying out some
> thoughts on the GHC release cycle timing [1] and how this relates to the
> in-progress Jenkins build infrastructure [2]. When you have a some time
>
Heya,
I very much agree with the thoughts on the variability of the release cadence.
The following is somewhat of a stream of consciousness as I read, so please
excuse any lack of coherence.
When you talk about the bugs being significant blockers to the latest release I
feel like that kind
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