Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

2017-03-28 Thread Edward Z. Yang
I updated the wiki page! Excerpts from Ben Gamari's message of 2017-03-27 12:00:19 -0400: > George Colpitts writes: > > > Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status > > page wrt

Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

2017-03-27 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status > page wrt what we > will be getting, specifically will Backpack be in 8.2.1 > Hi George, I just reviewed the

Re: GHC 8.2.1 status

2017-03-27 Thread George Colpitts
Thanks Ben. When you have a chance it would be good to update the status page wrt what we will be getting, specifically will Backpack be in 8.2.1 Cheers George On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:42 PM Ben Gamari wrote: >

GHC 8.2.1 status

2017-03-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, Here is your periodic release update. After a number of false-starts, the tree is finally approaching a releasable state. Last week I cut the ghc-8.2 branch and things have been stabilizing ever since. At this point we are waiting on only a couple more fixes before the rc1 source

GHC 8.2.1 status

2017-02-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, It has been a bit over a week since the last update regarding 8.2.1. At the moment we are on the final stretch leading up cutting the branch. Over the last week I have been cleaning up a variety of odds and ends around the tree, bumping core libraries, merging some last patches,