Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Carter Schonwald]

michael, yes, these are a bug that snuck in POST RC2, its getting fixed
this week. Contact Austin and ask for a binary, or build from 7.8 tip


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:30 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Friday, April 11, 2014, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
>>
>>> A serious bug was inadvertently included in the released 7.8.1:
>>>
>>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978
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>>
>> Well.. that's pretty ick.
>> M. Snoyberg - when you say "broken a number of my packages", do you mean
>> the Yesod suite?
>>
>> Let's see how GHC central decides to handle this... if it is a quick turn
>> with just this fix, then we'll be able to move to 7.8.2 quickly. If not,
>> then depending on what packages are broken with it, we'll need to decide
>> the next course of action.
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>
> I've gotten reports on three or four different packages so far. But the
> problem is that I'm now getting reports of build failures on packages that
> seemed to succeed when I first tested, so I don't know exactly what's going
> on. Note that these are regressions since rc2.
>
> What I'd really like to do is get the candidate release build and run a
> stackage build with it to see if there are any other regressions.
>
> Michael
>
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