Volunteers needed

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lentczner
I'm looking for volunteers for two Platform related tasks: 1) The wiki is quite a bit shabby. I needs some cleaning out, organizing, and some general maintenance. Anyone up for the task? 2) Our web site could use a bit of a refresh, both in content and style. Part of the "new build" branch of HP

Re: Upper bounds in PVP

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lentczner
1) The PVP is not written in RFC style: It is conversational and addresses the reader direction. 2) It's terms aren't those of RFC 2119. 3) The phrase "you should ensure" in section 3 was clearly meant that it was expected of the maintainer. Including upper bounds. Now, if someone would like to ha

Re: Volunteers needed

2014-04-10 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
For 2), I really see hakyll here, actually. You can have a custom compiler for the landing page for a given version, that just goes somewhere to fetch the packages/versions for that platform release, etc, and interpolates the templates with that. And a static website (AFAICT) makes sense for the pl

Re: Upper bounds in PVP WAS: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I haven't carefully studied the reason, but the crypto-related packages cause us more build problems than any other family of packages. I'm sure we're not the only ones; that's probably why Greg and others were assuming that they don't comply. The rampant lack of dependency upper bounds in these p

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Yitzchak Gale
There has been a new development regarding GHC 7.8.2. A serious bug was inadvertently included in the released 7.8.1: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978 It has to do with a bad interaction between type families and type aliases. So it might not even affect anything in the platform. But

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lentczner
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > A serious bug was inadvertently included in the released 7.8.1: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978 Well.. that's pretty ick. M. Snoyberg - when you say "broken a number of my packages", do you mean the Yesod suite? Let's see

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Carter Schonwald
7.8.2 is being built and tested as of earlier this afternoon, the release should be this week(end) On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > >> A serious bug was inadvertently included in the released 7.8.1: >> >> https://gh

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Carter Schonwald
michael, yes, these are a bug that snuck in POST RC2, its getting fixed this week. Contact Austin and ask for a binary, or build from 7.8 tip On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: > > > On Friday, April 11, 2014, Mark Lentczner > wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Y

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Lentczner
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > M. Snoyberg Grand apologies, Michael Snoyman. This is what comes of trying to continue to work while on vacation! I'll be back in a few days (and shifting into high HP gear!) - Mark "at the beach" Lentczner __

RE: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-10 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
OK, my GHC build is now complete. I can confirm that the original bug has in fact been fixed. I can also confirm that Yesod issue 713 about yesod-auth is *also* resolved, even though it was not part of the original GHC ticket. Furthermore, the entire yesod-platform compiles (after fixing a lang