binary in HP

[Lennart Kolmodin]

Hi all,

binary just had a major upgrade and version 0.7 was released, covering a
few but very useful features. blog post
here<http://lennartkolmodin.blogspot.ru/2013/03/binary-07.html>
.

binary is bundled with GHC, so GHC 7.8 will upgrade to this new version of
binary.
GHC 7.6.2 however was released with the older binary 0.5.1.1.

The next HP, 2013.2.0.0, will use GHC 7.6.2 as I understand it, therefore
the old version of binary.
The HP will eventually upgrade to a more recent version of binary when it
will use GHC 7.8 or later.
My question is whether HP would like to upgrade before that happens.

Two approaches could be taken.

   1. Add binary-0.7. There will be two versions of binary in HP.
   2. Replace binary-0.5.1.1 with binary-0.7 in the source of GHC 7.6.2.
   Requires a little bit of work, but the installers for HP would install only
   one version of binary. However, distros who want to support the HP might
   install GHC 7.6.2 first and then all packages, meaning that they would end
   up with two versions of binary anyway (i.e. approach (1) above).


What do you think? Upgrade or wait until the new binary naturally gets into
the HP through a new GHC version? If upgrade, which approach?

Will the HP after the upcoming one use GHC 7.8? In that case it might only
be 6 months more wait and it'd resolve itself naturally.

Regards,
  Lennart
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