GHC 7.8 release status

[Carter Schonwald]

What are ways for other folks to help? (If possible)

On Friday, November 15, 2013, Austin Seipp wrote:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the update.
>
> Right now I am endlessly battling windows, and while I actually DO
> have a dynamic GHC working for windows with the DLL split (#5987,) it
> is segfaulting in the stage2 compiler when compiling the 'time'
> library, and I am still looking into it for the past day or so. This
> is really my biggest hold up in pushing some needed fixes (I'll post
> some details out here on the list soon, so others can help.)
>
> I'm working this weekend to try and get a lot of it sorted out and
> post an update, but I will unfortunately be gone part of Saturday.
>
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Nicolas Frisby
> <nicolas.frisby at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Unless I missed an RC announcement, I'm pretty sure we're running a
> little
> > behind the schedule from that email.
> >
> > Deciders, has the Nov 25 target slid back? Any new estimates, if so?
> >
> > Thanks much.
> >
> > On Nov 14, 2013 9:40 PM, "Andreas Voellmy" <andreas.voellmy at gmail.com<javascript:;>
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Andreas Voellmy
> >> <andreas.voellmy at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I added a note about the parallel IO manager status to
> >>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8. There are two
> issues
> >>> I'd still like to resolve.  Is there a target date for the release?
> >>
> >>
> >> Oh, I just noticed
> >> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.ghc.devel/2569 which
> >> answers my question (target is Nov. 25).
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -Andi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Andreas Voellmy
> >>> <andreas.voellmy at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Yes, the parallel IO manager is new in 7.8. Thanks for reminding me of
> >>>> that excessive system time issue. That's been nagging me for a while.
> >>>> Hopefully I can find some time in the coming days to look at this
> again.
> >>>>
> >>>> -Andi
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> By the way, the parallel IO manager is also new in 7.8 right?  I'm
> not
> >>>>> sure but I think it may have something to do with the excessive
> system time
> >>>>> bug I just filed:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8224
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> --
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>
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