Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Nicolas, I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the update. Right now I am endlessly battling windows, and while I actually DO have a dynamic GHC working for windows with the DLL split (#5987,) it is segfaulting in the stage2 compiler when compiling the 'time' library,

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Carter Schonwald
What are ways for other folks to help? (If possible) On Friday, November 15, 2013, Austin Seipp wrote: Hi Nicolas, I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the update. Right now I am endlessly battling windows, and while I actually DO have a dynamic GHC working for

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-14 Thread Andreas Voellmy
I added a note about the parallel IO manager status to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8. There are two issues I'd still like to resolve. Is there a target date for the release? -Andi On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Andreas Voellmy andreas.voel...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, the

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-14 Thread Nicolas Frisby
Unless I missed an RC announcement, I'm pretty sure we're running a little behind the schedule from that email. Deciders, has the Nov 25 target slid back? Any new estimates, if so? Thanks much. On Nov 14, 2013 9:40 PM, Andreas Voellmy andreas.voel...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated; atomics branch is merged. The only further work I plan to do in the near term is add additional tests. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.comwrote: Friends The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
); David Luposchainsky; ghc- | d...@haskell.org | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status | | | On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:52, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com | wrote: | | Edsko/Thomas/Luite: if you want anything for 7.8 it'll have to be | jolly soon. At the moment I don't even know the motivation

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Austin Seipp
Thank you Ryan! I'll be getting my ARMv7 build machine back online today, hopefully. Jens Peterson reported he had a working ARMv7 build to me today from HEAD, which is good news. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated;

GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask abou the status of your contributions. In each case could you update the wiki with the current state of play, and your intentions, including dates. That is, don't put your reply in email: it on the status page below; though by all

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
By the way, the parallel IO manager is also new in 7.8 right? I'm not sure but I think it may have something to do with the excessive system time bug I just filed: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8224 ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: GHC 7.8 Release Status Schedule

2013-10-09 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: - Nov 1st: Cut branch, and I plan on making a 7.8 RC1 available the same day, for several platforms. Hi, Austin - Thanks for writing this up. One of the factors that's blocking my ability to build Hackage packages is

Re: GHC 7.8 Release Status Schedule

2013-10-09 Thread Carter Schonwald
Indeed. There's a few straggling things but overall we're in feature freeze overall right now, right? On Wednesday, October 9, 2013, Johan Tibell wrote: On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.comjavascript:; wrote: One of the factors that's blocking my ability to

GHC 7.8 Release Status Schedule

2013-10-05 Thread Austin Seipp
Friends, After talking with Simon yesterday, we have some idea of how the release will go. As I'm sure you're aware, the release is winding down rather quickly, and it will be a fantastic one hopefully :) Now that all the features have landed, we're going into bugfixing mode. The schedule is,

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-11 Thread Edsko de Vries
else seems to mind either way) then go ahead. Simon From: Luite Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 September 2013 08:37 To: Edsko de Vries Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; ghc-devs; Edsko de Vries Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status Edsko has done some work of rearranging

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-11 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
to document some these loops too. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Edsko de Vries [mailto:edskodevr...@gmail.com] | Sent: 11 September 2013 15:33 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Luite Stegeman; ghc-devs; Edsko de Vries | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status | | Hi all, | | So I managed

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-10 Thread Luite Stegeman
2013 22:04 To: Simon Peyton-Jones Cc: Thomas Schilling; Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status · Why aren’t you using Data.Dynamic for the hook things? You are precisely doing dynamic typing after all. (Moreover I want to change Data.Dynamic so

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 September 2013 08:37 To: Edsko de Vries Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; ghc-devs; Edsko de Vries Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status Edsko has done some work of rearranging imports in DynFlags to make the DLL split work, and I've implemented the hooks on top of this, in a record

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
interested parties, work together to evolve a design that everyone is happy with. Does that sound ok? Simon From: Luite Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] Sent: 07 September 2013 22:04 To: Simon Peyton-Jones Cc: Thomas Schilling; Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs Subject: Re: GHC 7.8

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
-devs Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status * Why aren't you using Data.Dynamic for the hook things? You are precisely doing dynamic typing after all. (Moreover I want to change Data.Dynamic so that it says data Dynamic where Dyn :: Typeable a = a - Dynamic and you want

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-07 Thread Luite Stegeman
· **Why aren’t you using Data.Dynamic for the hook things? You are precisely doing dynamic typing after all. (Moreover I want to change Data.Dynamic so that it says data Dynamic where Dyn :: Typeable a = a - Dynamic and you want to take advantage of this. Ah the goal

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Diatchki iavor.diatc...@gmail.commailto:iavor.diatc...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.commailto:simo...@microsoft.com Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM Subject: GHC 7.8 release status To: Nicolas Frisby nicolas.fri

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-04 Thread Luke Iannini
| Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status | | | On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:52, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com | wrote: | | Edsko/Thomas/Luite: if you want anything for 7.8 it'll have to be | jolly soon. At the moment I don't even know the motivation or design, | let alone