GHC 7.8 release?

Bardur Arantsson spam at scientician.net
Tue Feb 12 18:01:27 CET 2013


On 02/12/2013 09:37 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 11/02/13 23:03, Johan Tibell wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> Of course we do also make well-intentioned changes to libraries, via the
> library proposal process, and some of these break APIs.  But it wouldn't
> do any harm to batch these up and defer them until the next API-changing
> release.

Indeed. It might even be preferable to just have one "huge" breakage
every year than having lots of minor breakages which require updating
packages (and dependencies). At least you'll feel you're getting your
money's worth.





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