HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| Are you planning to make a ghc 7.6.3 release?

I suppose so, but we'd prefer to make sure it works first.

| Yes, I see no suitable snapshot distribution, though:
| http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist

I hope Ian can help.  I only pushed the fix this morning so there won't be a snapshot, and I don't know whether snapshots are being built for your platform.  (Indeed I don't know what your platform is.)

S

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Christian Maeder [mailto:Christian.Maeder at dfki.de]
| Sent: 16 April 2013 08:44
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones
| Cc: Ian Lynagh; Mark Lentczner; ghc-devs at haskell.org; haskell-
| platform at projects.haskell.org; Haskell Libraries
| Subject: Re: HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2
| 
| Am 16.04.2013 08:35, schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones:
| > | I just spoiled my day by
| > | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7748
| > | with ghc-7.6.2 in our large project:
| > | 	hets: <<loop>>
| > | hets works fine with ghc-7.6.1 (and older versions). I haven't
| > | located the error yet, though.
| > |
| > | Yet, I therefore conclude, GHC 7.6.2 ist not suited for the official
| HP.
| >
| > Happily I have found and fixed #7748 in the 7.6 branch.
| >
| > Christian, is it possible for you to build the 7.6 branch and test
| with Hets?
| 
| Yes, I see no suitable snapshot distribution, though:
| http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist
| 
| What is the exact command to get the relevant ghc sources.
| 
| Are you planning to make a ghc 7.6.3 release?
| 
| Thanks Christian
| 
| > Simon
| >
| >