binary in HP

[Lennart Kolmodin]

2013/3/10 Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>

> (which is really a version constraint hell, not sure why cabal takes the
> fall...).
>
Same reason why the messenger gets shot, I guess :)


This is perhaps a good moment to reiterate that Haskell Platform exists to
> create a clear, stable, "it just works", and "you can count on it"
> distribution - and so by construction does not generally contain the latest
> hotness.
>
I'm perfectly fine with this, let's wait.

Lennart


>
> - Mark
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Gregory Collins <greg at gregorycollins.net>wrote:
>
>> 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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