Haskell Platform 2013.2 Proposal Status

[Carter Schonwald]

Did anyone spend time trying to identify / bisect when the bug was fixed
between 7.6.2 and ghc head? (and backport the logic to resolve it)

would be a shame to not have the next haskell platform use 7.6 ...


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

> * Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> [2013-04-12 11:26:25+0200]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just spoiled my day by http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7748
> > with ghc-7.6.2 in our large project:
> >
> > hets: <<loop>>
> >
> > hets works fine with ghc-7.6.1 (and older versions). I haven't
> > located the error yet, though.
> >
> > Yet, I therefore conclude, GHC 7.6.2 ist not suited for the official HP.
>
> I don't think this is enough data to make such a conclusion.
> GHC 7.6.2 may have fixes for bugs that are present in GHC 7.6.1, for
> example.
>
> So we need to compare the fixed bugs versus regressions in 7.6.2 to make
> the choice.
>
> (OTOH, the looping bug is a nasty one, if you ask me, and is difficult
> to debug.)
>
> Roman
>
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