package versions for 2012.2.0.0

[David Terei]

On 6 May 2012 09:41, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Outstanding questions about packages in the Platform:
>> [ ] mtl will need MonadCatchIO-mtl-0.3.0.4 - do we make that part of the
>> platform?
>
> Is MonadCatchIO sounds?
>
>> [ ] updating OpenGL and GLUT to recent versions will require including
>> packages: ObjectName, OpenGLRaw, GLURaw, StateVar, and Tensor. How do we
>> want to proceed?
>
> I think we already decided in the past that we won't upgrade those
> versions due to those new modules.
>
> [ ] Is GHC 7.4.1 stable enough for a platform release? Do we know of
> any major bugs?

I'd argue waiting for 7.4.2. There are some pretty nice fixes in there
for some reasonably serious bugs. I'm not sure when GHC HQ plans to
release 7.4.2 but I would think soon and I'm sure they would be
willing to make that sooner if you guys requested.

>
> -- Johan
>
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