Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Mark Lentczner
A few specific points: 1) 2013.4.0.0 isn't really "ready to be pushed" - there were delays, and then some rolling updates... and some churn. While there is a proposed set of packages... and it does compile... there is still some work on the Mac version (it needs to incorporate my patch script for

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Carter Schonwald
Jens, are you willing to undertake providing support for all the problems in current 7.6 on ALL platforms right now? Are you willing to test the builds on all platforms, and be the person to help everyone who's hitting issues? doing an HP release now will push back the release timeline of an HP

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Jens Petersen
> > I know it is difficult but if ghc and haskell-platform could align > their schedules better then things might be easier to plan in the future. > Really I would like to see a HP release now *and* one after 7.8.1! :) I think HP beta releases should follow each ghc release and there can be

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Carter Schonwald
Indeed. Perhaps more importantly: many long standing problems, relating to how ghci linking works on every major platform, and having win64 support, look to be resolved In 7.8. These are HUGE. Additionally the Cpp that's a bother on osx and bsd systems matter goes away for HP if the next release

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Sven Panne
Just a quick +1 for including GHC 7.8 in the next HP release. Regarding compiler features, shipping GHC 7.6.3 again would mean that the HP is still roughly at September 2012 (the first release of GHC 7.6.x). Furthermore, I don't fully buy into the argument that we should wait for 7.8 to stabilize:

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Jens Petersen
On 20 January 2014 17:29, Andres Löh wrote: > (2) Simply because GHC 7.8 is itself so long delayed and so full of > new features, I think it's realistic to assume that quite a few > library glitches will appear even after it's released. Also, GHC bugs > may be found only

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Páli Gábor János
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Andres Löh wrote: > I can understand the motivation of this proposal, but I'm slightly worried: +1 > (2) Simply because GHC 7.8 is itself so long delayed and so full of > new features, I think it's realistic to assume that quite a few >

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Bob Ippolito
+1 I'm just a user, but I'm very excited about the possibility of getting a GHC 7.8 platform release sooner than later (especially considering Mio and the other great additions). Another release with the same GHC wouldn't do me much good. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Mark Lentczner

Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)

2017-11-23 Thread Johan Tibell
+1 On Jan 19, 2014 3:15 PM, "Mark Lentczner" wrote: > Looks like GHC 7.8 is pretty near release. > > And while I know that we really like to have a GHC out for a while, and > perhaps see the .1 release, before we incorporate it into the Platform, > this GHC, while