Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On 28/05/2014 14:55, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Am 28.05.2014 07:05, schrieb Mark Lentczner:
>> *Please check over the current state of the packages and versions for
>> 2014.1:
>> *
>>
>>    
>> https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/new-build/hptool/src/Releases2014.hs
>>
> 
> At least the packages network and HTTP have newer versions on hackage.

HTTP 4000.2.10 is listed there and 4000.2.17 is the latest version.

Roughly speaking, the user-visible changes are:

4000.2.17 - use a more modern API for looking up hostnames, IPv6 support
4000.2.12 - Support "http://user:pass@..." in URLs
4000.2.11 - Fix problem with connection pool and closed connections

4000.2.17 is fairly recent (uploaded to hackage May 26th) and contains a
potentially high-impact change that I haven't been able to test on
MacOSX yet.

4000.2.12 dates from March.

So the lower risk option would be to take some version between 4000.2.12
and 4000.2.16, which should all be equivalent as far as the HP goes as
the only changes were to packaging (if you do take network 2.5 you'll
need at least 4000.2.13 for the dependency bump).

On the other hand it may be nice to have IPv6 support in cabal-install.

Cheers,

Ganesh