binary in HP

[Gregory Collins]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Lennart Kolmodin <kolmodin at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

I think for GHC boot packages we should ship with the same version that
ships with GHC.

-- 
Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>
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