Plans for next release

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 08:31 -0400, Don Stewart wrote:
> I think we stick to the stable release plan.

By which I presume you mean do a major HP release based on GHC 7.0.4.

That means we stick with the core lib versions that come with GHC 7.0.4,
and update to the latest version of other libs as normal for a major
release.

Duncan

> On Monday, September 5, 2011, Duncan Coutts
> <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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