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Hello Devs,<br>
<br>
After running into #16408 today I realized there is as of yet no
released bindist<br>
of the 8.6 series which I would consider stable for windows.<br>
<br>
GHC 8.6.1 and 8.6.2 had a series of critical bugs which applied to
multiple platforms: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/16408">https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/16408</a><br>
GHC 8.6.3 loops forever if compiling certain code using TH on windows.
This affects some very popular hackage packages: (<a
href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/16057" style=" color:
rgb(46, 46, 46); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent;">#16057)</a><br>
GHC 8.6.4 (marked stable) currently ships without profiling libraries,
making profiling impossible.<br>
<br>
Being stuck with 8.4 is one thing, and if properly communicated not too
bad.<br>
But it requires work to even find out about these (major) issues and to
discover that 8.6 is NOT production ready for windows.<br>
<br>
We offered the broken 8.6.3 as stable for weeks without any indication
that it was broken.<br>
We still serve GHC 8.6.4 as stable without any hint about the missing
profiling libraries.<br>
<br>
I can't offer solutions in this case but I feel like something about the
release management has to change if .<br>
Having to check the GHC bugtracker to find out if the current stable
release is actually stable is just not sustainable.<br>
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