Setting a timetable

[Don Stewart]

Thanks. This is helpful. I'll put together the release schedule this
evening. Aiming for weekend after next

On Monday, November 14, 2011, Duncan Coutts <duncan at well-typed.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-13 at 14:46 -0500, Don Stewart wrote:
>> Ok.
>
> Don, thanks for jumping in. I tried a month back or so to get things
> going, and we did make some progress, but my attention has been divided
> with lots of tasks in the cabal/hackage-server world.
>
>> Then the question is: which compiler is GHC HQ blessing as stable at this
>> point. GHC 7.0.4 looks like the best bet.
>
> Yes, previously when I initiated this discussion we all agreed to do a
> major release with GHC-7.0.4. We made some progress, Mark Lentczner hit
> some problems with OSX. I think (Mark correct me if I'm wrong!) that
> those are now solved.
>
> We agreed on 7.0.4 because at the time 7.2.1 was agreed to be no good
> for a HP release (too many bugs e.g. with Safe Haskell). GHC HQ also
> told us that there would be no 7.2.2 release at all. That they were
> going to concentrate on 7.4.x.
>
> Now clearly GHC HQ changed their minds on 7.2.2 and are pushing the 7.4
> branch back (I think so they can finish some features they want for
> 7.4).
>
> So now that 7.2.2 is out I'm not sure if we want to revise our plans or
> continue with the plan to do a major release with 7.0.4. I don't know
> enough about what got fixed in 7.2.2. My inclination would be to
> continue with 7.0.4. We've already done most of the work for that.
>
> BTW, note that it would be a major release, i.e. 2011.4.0.0, not a minor
> release like 2011.2.0.2. That's because we're bumping library versions.
> We agreed the latter point last time we discussed this on this list.
>
> So if you want my vote: we should go for a 2011.4.0.0 release as soon as
> practical with ghc 7.0.4 and the latest libs.
>
> --
> Duncan Coutts, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
>
>
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