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

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.

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

2017-04-04 Thread Ryan Trinkle
skell.org] *On Behalf Of >> *Sebastian >> Graf >> *Sent:* 04 April 2017 09:12 >> *To:* ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> >> *Subject:* Windows 10 Creators Update will break GHC (Was FW: GHC on >> Windows 10 15019+) >> >> >> >> Hi, >

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

2017-04-04 Thread Phyx
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 <ghc-devs@haskell.org> > *Subje

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
] On Behalf Of Sebastian Graf Sent: 04 April 2017 09:12 To: ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> 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 availab

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,

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