GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-03 Thread Ben Gamari
tl;dr: If you would like to produce a binary distribution for GHC 8.2.1-rc1 then let me know, grab the source distribution and start building. The binary distributions will be announced one week from today. Hello GHC packagers, I am happy to announce the release of the

Re: FW: [Haskell-cafe] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2017 edition (32nd edition)

2017-04-03 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs writes: > Ben > > Will you coordinate the GHC status report for HCAR? > Of course. > Everyone: please don’t leave Ben doing all the heavy lifting. He'll > sketch a structure but it's up to the rest of us to fill it in. These > six monthly

RE: Translation of GHC typechecker output to haskell-src-exts's 'Type'

2017-04-03 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Tom Please start a wiki page, somewhere under https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary that gives the information you wish was more clearly described. And/or add a Note in TyCoRep to explain. My answer to your question would be: The type that Haskell programmers write Ord a

FW: [Haskell-cafe] [Call for Contributions] Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2017 edition (32nd edition)

2017-04-03 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Ben Will you coordinate the GHC status report for HCAR? Everyone: please don’t leave Ben doing all the heavy lifting. He'll sketch a structure but it's up to the rest of us to fill it in. These six monthly reports are widely read, I think. Simon -Original Message- From: