Plans for next release

[Duncan Coutts]

Hi all,

I'd like to solicit opinions on what we should do for our next HP
release.

The main issue is GHC. We have GHC 7.2.1 out now, but it's fairly widely
agreed that it is not ready for an HP release. We are expecting GHC
7.4.1 towards the end of the year [1] and we do not expect there to be a
7.2.2 release at all [2].

Therefore the obvious choice is to just use GHC 7.0.4. Indeed the GHC
devs say they made this release with the HP in mind.

So the only question is whether we do a minor release with 7.0.4 or if
we do a major release and include non-bugfix updates of the other
packages.

According to our general plan we ought to be doing a major release
around now.

Opinions?

Duncan

[1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-ghc/2011-September/065590.html
[2] private communication with GHC devs