Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread George Colpitts
I don't know how to produce a binary distribution but I did do a build on
Mac OS 10.12.4 with XCode 8.3. It went flawlessly and subjectively seemed
much faster than previous builds. I then did a cabal install of hlint and
verified that hlint worked.



On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 1:22 AM Ben Gamari  wrote:

>
> 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 8.2.1-rc1 source distribution
> to binary packagers. You will find the usual source artifacts at
>
> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1-rc1/
>
> As usual, the sooner we can get the binary distributions together the
> better, but I will hold off on announcing the distributions until next
> Sunday to ensure we're all on the same page. It would be appreciated if
> you could reply to this message confirming that you intend to offer a
> binary distribution this release.
>
> Otherwise, let me know if you have any trouble building your
> distribution. I have yet to push the ghc-8.2.1-rc1 tag in case we
> encounter unexpected issues but all of my builds with this tarball
> thusfar have gone swimmingly save a few known issues (namely #13426,
> #13233, and #13509).
>
> Good luck and thanks for all of your work!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
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Re: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Ryan Trinkle  writes:

> I would strongly urge that any new tarballs be released under new names,
> and that the old tarballs be kept in place.  Changing existing tarball URLs
> silently causes breakage for Nix, and, I would imagine, for any other build
> systems that are particularly concerned with reproducibility.  Nix packages
> based on GHC use an SHA-256 hash of the tarball to check it when
> downloading, which of course will be broken by any change, no matter how
> minor.
>
I completely agree here; I avoid updating existing artifacts whenever
possible.

Cheers,

- Ben



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Re: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Phyx  writes:

> We have discussed a few options on what to do, but haven't gotten a
> conclusion/concensus yet.
>
Tamar and I have discussed this on IRC in the passed. I tend to agree
that we will need to, at the very least, put out a new 8.0.2. I'm not
sure about 7.10. Moreover, there is reportedly a non-negligible fraction
of users still using 7.8 releases, although I'm not keen on going back
that far given that this was pre-submodules.

> Last we talked one option was presented to just re-tar the 7.10.3 and 8.0.2
> tarballs with the fix. The gcc wrapper does not affect code generation of
> the compiler, it's just there to correct paths that are hard-coded in gcc
> because it was built to be used in MSYS2.
>
> 7.10.3 would be needed since we still support bootstrapping using it. This
> would be the easiest solution.
>
> Ben what do you think about changing the already released tarballs? Or
> would you prefer a full new release?
>
We certainly can't change the existing tarballs. However, we could just
push out a 7.10.4 (or perhaps 7.10.3b, I'm unsure) release with binary
distributions for Windows only. There are a few unrelated patches on the
ghc-7.10 branch that weren't present in 7.10.3, but I believe they are
quite low-risk.

Cheers,

- Ben


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Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Ben Gamari
Alan & Kim Zimmerman  writes:

> There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used?
>
As I mention in the message, I intentionally held off on pushing the tag
to avoid the need to force push in case this commit ends up being bad.
The tarball was produced from d67f0471cd3584c5a548ff30c9023b599b598d3e.

Cheers,

- Ben



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Re: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Ryan Trinkle
I would strongly urge that any new tarballs be released under new names,
and that the old tarballs be kept in place.  Changing existing tarball URLs
silently causes breakage for Nix, and, I would imagine, for any other build
systems that are particularly concerned with reproducibility.  Nix packages
based on GHC use an SHA-256 hash of the tarball to check it when
downloading, which of course will be broken by any change, no matter how
minor.

Of course, this doesn't necessarily impact the version number directly.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Phyx  wrote:

> We have discussed a few options on what to do, but haven't gotten a
> conclusion/concensus yet.
>
> Last we talked one option was presented to just re-tar the 7.10.3 and
> 8.0.2 tarballs with the fix. The gcc wrapper does not affect code
> generation of the compiler, it's just there to correct paths that are
> hard-coded in gcc because it was built to be used in MSYS2.
>
> 7.10.3 would be needed since we still support bootstrapping using it. This
> would be the easiest solution.
>
> Ben what do you think about changing the already released tarballs? Or
> would you prefer a full new release?
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, 09:18 Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs, <
> ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote:
>
>> Yikes that sounds bad!
>>
>>
>>
>> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
>> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Help would be fantastic.   Phyx, Ben, etc: do we have a plan?
>>
>>
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] *On Behalf Of 
>> *Sebastian
>> Graf
>> *Sent:* 04 April 2017 09:12
>> *To:* ghc-devs 
>> *Subject:* Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on
>> Windows 10 15019+)
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th
>> (next week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.
>>
>>
>>
>> See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets
>> discussing this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there
>> might be an interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile
>> a Haskell program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.
>>
>>
>>
>> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
>> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-
>> 10-15019-td5853491.html
>>
>> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
>>
>> [3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
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Re: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Phyx
We have discussed a few options on what to do, but haven't gotten a
conclusion/concensus yet.

Last we talked one option was presented to just re-tar the 7.10.3 and 8.0.2
tarballs with the fix. The gcc wrapper does not affect code generation of
the compiler, it's just there to correct paths that are hard-coded in gcc
because it was built to be used in MSYS2.

7.10.3 would be needed since we still support bootstrapping using it. This
would be the easiest solution.

Ben what do you think about changing the already released tarballs? Or
would you prefer a full new release?

On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, 09:18 Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs, <
ghc-devs@haskell.org> wrote:

> Yikes that sounds bad!
>
>
>
> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>
>
>
> Help would be fantastic.   Phyx, Ben, etc: do we have a plan?
>
>
>
> Simon
>
>
>
> *From:* ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Sebastian
> Graf
> *Sent:* 04 April 2017 09:12
> *To:* ghc-devs 
> *Subject:* Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on
> Windows 10 15019+)
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th
> (next week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.
>
>
>
> See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets
> discussing this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there
> might be an interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile
> a Haskell program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.
>
>
>
> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
>
> [1]
> http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-10-15019-td5853491.html
>
> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
>
> [3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
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RE: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
Yikes that sounds bad!

I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work (if 
there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.

Help would be fantastic.   Phyx, Ben, etc: do we have a plan?

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Sebastian Graf
Sent: 04 April 2017 09:12
To: ghc-devs 
Subject: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 
15019+)

Hi,

when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th (next 
week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.

See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets discussing 
this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there might be an 
interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile a Haskell 
program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.

I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work (if 
there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.

Greetings,
Sebastian

[1] 
http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-10-15019-td5853491.html
[2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
[3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
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Re: Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Sebastian Graf
Also note that a minimal patch already exists which will ship in GHC 8.2:
https://git.haskell.org/ghc.git/commitdiff/018ac7f4b2f7345e28d21fb1f99b44dbc79f6e85

It's 'just' a matter of packaging that up in a hotfix.

On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Sebastian Graf  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th
> (next week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.
>
> See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets
> discussing this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there
> might be an interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile
> a Haskell program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.
>
> I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
> (if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.
>
> Greetings,
> Sebastian
>
> [1] http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-
> 10-15019-td5853491.html
> [2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
> [3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
>
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Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on Windows 10 15019+)

2017-04-04 Thread Sebastian Graf
Hi,

when the Creators Update finally hits Windows 10 stable on April 11th (next
week), every currently available GHC will be broken by it.

See [1] for the previous discussion, [2] and [3] for the tickets discussing
this. From what I read on the GHC 8.2 status wiki page, there might be an
interval of some weeks where it will not be possible to compile a Haskell
program on any up-to-date Windows 10 installation.

I just wanted to raise awareness and offer myself to do guided grunt work
(if there is any) to push out a hotfix/inplace patch release for GHC 8.0.2.

Greetings,
Sebastian

[1]
http://haskell.1045720.n5.nabble.com/FW-GHC-on-Windows-10-15019-td5853491.html
[2] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13411
[3] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13472
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Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
$ tar xOf ghc-8.2.0.20170404-src.tar.xz  ghc-8.2.0.20170404/GIT_COMMIT_ID ;
echo
d67f0471cd3584c5a548ff30c9023b599b598d3e


On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:01 AM Alan & Kim Zimmerman 
wrote:

> There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used?
>
> Alan
>
> On 4 April 2017 at 06:21, Ben Gamari  wrote:
>
>
> 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 8.2.1-rc1 source distribution
> to binary packagers. You will find the usual source artifacts at
>
> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1-rc1/
>
> As usual, the sooner we can get the binary distributions together the
> better, but I will hold off on announcing the distributions until next
> Sunday to ensure we're all on the same page. It would be appreciated if
> you could reply to this message confirming that you intend to offer a
> binary distribution this release.
>
> Otherwise, let me know if you have any trouble building your
> distribution. I have yet to push the ghc-8.2.1-rc1 tag in case we
> encounter unexpected issues but all of my builds with this tarball
> thusfar have gone swimmingly save a few known issues (namely #13426,
> #13233, and #13509).
>
> Good luck and thanks for all of your work!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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Re: GHC 8.2.1-rc1 source tarball availability

2017-04-04 Thread Alan & Kim Zimmerman
There is no tag in the source tree, which commit has been used?

Alan

On 4 April 2017 at 06:21, Ben Gamari  wrote:

>
> 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 8.2.1-rc1 source distribution
> to binary packagers. You will find the usual source artifacts at
>
> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.2.1-rc1/
>
> As usual, the sooner we can get the binary distributions together the
> better, but I will hold off on announcing the distributions until next
> Sunday to ensure we're all on the same page. It would be appreciated if
> you could reply to this message confirming that you intend to offer a
> binary distribution this release.
>
> Otherwise, let me know if you have any trouble building your
> distribution. I have yet to push the ghc-8.2.1-rc1 tag in case we
> encounter unexpected issues but all of my builds with this tarball
> thusfar have gone swimmingly save a few known issues (namely #13426,
> #13233, and #13509).
>
> Good luck and thanks for all of your work!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
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