Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[Ben Gamari]

Emanuel Borsboom  writes:

> Hi Ben,
>
> Are there any plans to start releasing Linux bindists linked with
> libncurses.so.6? A number of Linux distributions have upgraded from 5,
> including Fedora, Arch and Gentoo, and the currently available
> official bindists don't work out of the box on those anymore.
>
Indeed I can add an ncurses.so.6 platform to the build matrix. I'll
start with the next alpha. Thanks for mentioning this!

Cheers,

- Ben


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[Emanuel Borsboom]

Hi Ben,

Are there any plans to start releasing Linux bindists linked with 
libncurses.so.6?  A number of Linux distributions have upgraded from 5, 
including Fedora, Arch and Gentoo, and the currently available official 
bindists don't work out of the box on those anymore.

-- Manny

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[Ben Gamari]

George Colpitts  writes:

> Probably stating what is obvious and well-know but anyways:
>
>- On the status page
> it would be
>good to have a link for "Phase 2 of the Semigroup-Monoid Proposal (Herbert
>Riedel)"

Good catch. I've added a link.

>- Also IIRC we normally have a page on porting to the new release. It
>would be good to have that also when we have a chance.
>
Indeed, the migration page can be found here:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/8.4. I've added a link
to the 8.4 status page.

Cheers,

- Ben


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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[George Colpitts]

Probably stating what is obvious and well-know but anyways:

   - On the status page
    it would be
   good to have a link for "Phase 2 of the Semigroup-Monoid Proposal (Herbert
   Riedel)"
   - Also IIRC we normally have a page on porting to the new release. It
   would be good to have that also when we have a chance.

It's great that we are getting started early.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:16 PM George Colpitts 
wrote:

> Thanks Ben. I installed the Mac binaries.
>
> For others who are wondering, you need llvm 5 if you want to use llvm with
> this.
>
> Needless to say, many libraries, e.g. haskell-src-exts, primitive, and
> intero won't compile with this even with --allow-newer
>
> I'll notify those libraries about that in case they want to get started on
> 8.4.1
>
> Cheers
> George
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:48 PM Ben Gamari  wrote:
>
>>
>> The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release
>> of the 8.4.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from
>>
>> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-alpha1
>>
>> Note that this release drops compatibility with GCC 4.6 and earlier.
>> While we generally try to place as few constraints on system toolchain
>> as possible, this release depends upon the __atomic__ builtins provided
>> by GCC 4.7 and later (see #14244).
>>
>>
>> === Notes on release scheduling ===
>>
>> The 8.4.1 release marks the first release where GHC will be adhering to
>> its new, higher-cadence release schedule [1]. Under this new scheme,
>> major releases will be made in 6-month intervals with interstitial minor
>> releases as necessary.
>>
>> In order to minimize the likelihood of schedule slippage and to ensure
>> adequate testing, each major release will be preceeded by a number of
>> regular alpha releases. We will begin issuing these releases roughly
>> three months before the final date of the major release and will issue
>> roughly one every two weeks during this period. This high release
>> cadence will allow us to quickly get fixes in to users hands and allow
>> better feedback on the status of the release.
>>
>> GHC 8.4 is slated to be released in mid-February but, due to technical
>> constraints, we are starting the alpha-release cycle a bit later than
>> planned under the above schedule. For this reason, it would be greatly
>> appreciated if users could put this alpha through its paces to make up
>> for lost time.
>>
>> As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of
>> testing. Thanks for your help!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/2017-release-schedule
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[George Colpitts]

Thanks Ben. I installed the Mac binaries.

For others who are wondering, you need llvm 5 if you want to use llvm with
this.

Needless to say, many libraries, e.g. haskell-src-exts, primitive, and
intero won't compile with this even with --allow-newer

I'll notify those libraries about that in case they want to get started on
8.4.1

Cheers
George

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:48 PM Ben Gamari  wrote:

>
> The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release
> of the 8.4.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from
>
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-alpha1
>
> Note that this release drops compatibility with GCC 4.6 and earlier.
> While we generally try to place as few constraints on system toolchain
> as possible, this release depends upon the __atomic__ builtins provided
> by GCC 4.7 and later (see #14244).
>
>
> === Notes on release scheduling ===
>
> The 8.4.1 release marks the first release where GHC will be adhering to
> its new, higher-cadence release schedule [1]. Under this new scheme,
> major releases will be made in 6-month intervals with interstitial minor
> releases as necessary.
>
> In order to minimize the likelihood of schedule slippage and to ensure
> adequate testing, each major release will be preceeded by a number of
> regular alpha releases. We will begin issuing these releases roughly
> three months before the final date of the major release and will issue
> roughly one every two weeks during this period. This high release
> cadence will allow us to quickly get fixes in to users hands and allow
> better feedback on the status of the release.
>
> GHC 8.4 is slated to be released in mid-February but, due to technical
> constraints, we are starting the alpha-release cycle a bit later than
> planned under the above schedule. For this reason, it would be greatly
> appreciated if users could put this alpha through its paces to make up
> for lost time.
>
> As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of
> testing. Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
>
>
> [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/2017-release-schedule
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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-alpha1 available

[Ben Gamari]

The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release
of the 8.4.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-alpha1

Note that this release drops compatibility with GCC 4.6 and earlier.
While we generally try to place as few constraints on system toolchain
as possible, this release depends upon the __atomic__ builtins provided
by GCC 4.7 and later (see #14244).


=== Notes on release scheduling ===

The 8.4.1 release marks the first release where GHC will be adhering to
its new, higher-cadence release schedule [1]. Under this new scheme,
major releases will be made in 6-month intervals with interstitial minor
releases as necessary.

In order to minimize the likelihood of schedule slippage and to ensure
adequate testing, each major release will be preceeded by a number of
regular alpha releases. We will begin issuing these releases roughly
three months before the final date of the major release and will issue
roughly one every two weeks during this period. This high release
cadence will allow us to quickly get fixes in to users hands and allow
better feedback on the status of the release.

GHC 8.4 is slated to be released in mid-February but, due to technical
constraints, we are starting the alpha-release cycle a bit later than
planned under the above schedule. For this reason, it would be greatly
appreciated if users could put this alpha through its paces to make up
for lost time.

As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of
testing. Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/2017-release-schedule


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