7.8 Release Update

[Johan Tibell]

Is it OK if I release Cabal-1.18.0.1 on Monday if we want it to ship
with GHC 7.8? 1.18.0.1 is a tiny bugfix release on top of 1.18.0.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Yes I will try to review it this week. (This is the first time I've had access to the code.)
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:aseipp at pobox.com]
> | Sent: 09 September 2013 16:25
> | To: Trevor Elliott
> | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-devs at haskell.org; glasgow-haskell-
> | users at haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones
> | Subject: Re: 7.8 Release Update
> |
> | Excellent. Simon, are you privvy to this work at all? We lightly
> | talked about it last week, but I'm not sure if you've reviewed it. Or
> | perhaps Pedro or someone else could if we have time (I seem to
> | remember he drew up the initial design points.)
> |
> | On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Trevor Elliott <trevor at galois.com>
> | wrote:
> | > Hi Austin,
> | >
> | > Iavor and I have got the data kinds syntax changes up to date with
> | master,
> | > on the data-kind-syntax branch.  The -XDataKinds section of the manual
> | has
> | > been updated to describe the new syntax.  During a validate run, there
> | were
> | > some problems building haddock, so I'm going to look into that
> | tonight.
> | >
> | > There are tests for the data kind syntax in the test suite, currently
> | on the
> | > data-kind-syntax branch.
> | >
> | > Other than the haddock fix, I think that we're ready to go.
> | >
> | > Thanks!
> | >
> | > --trevor
> | >
> | >
> | > On Sun 08 Sep 2013 04:27:33 PM PDT, Austin Seipp wrote:
> | >>
> | >> Friends,
> | >>
> | >> After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the
> | 7.8
> | >> feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is
> | the
> | >> beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow.
> | >>
> | >> Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my
> | >> notes tentatively say Oct. 9th.) This will give us a few weeks of
> | >> straight bugfixing.
> | >>
> | >> Don't let this scare you too much. We're doing this at the beginning
> | >> of the week so we have time to sort things out. Bug fixes will of
> | >> course continuously be welcome until the 7.8 branch.
> | >>
> | >> However, for pending features, I'd like a status update. Everyone
> | >> mentioned below, please reply to clarify anything:
> | >>
> | >>   * Iavor Diatchki and SPJ are working together on the type-nats-
> | simple
> | >> branch. I believe this will hopefully land in time. Iavor, SPJ - can
> | >> you comment here?
> | >>
> | >>   * Trevor and Iavor are also working on kinds without data. Any word
> | >> here?
> | >>
> | >>   * Geoffrey is currently moving, but he says the SIMD work and new
> | >> template-haskell work will land by the end of this week, which is
> | >> great.
> | >>
> | >>   * Patrick Palka has a few loose ends to tie off for the parallel
> | >> compilation driver. I talked to him today, and after Andreas
> | committed
> | >> his bugfix to base, I believe everything is now working, with the
> | >> deadlocks sorted out. Patrick, can you confirm? We can get this
> | merged
> | >> ASAP if so.
> | >>
> | >>   * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality,
> | >> etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what
> | >> else needs to be done. I know Pedro committed the work to make manual
> | >> Typeable instances an error, which is great.
> | >>
> | >>   * Luite and Edsko will be talking about some final changes to the
> | >> hooks patch, and afterwords it can hopefully be integrated. I'll keep
> | >> up with them this week.
> | >>
> | >>   * I am currently working on integrating the Applicative-Monad
> | >> warning, but this requires some upstream patches for the build to
> | >> work. However, we still need to sync several upstream libraries, and
> | >> this will be happening over the next few weeks. Therefore, I may
> | >> commit it, and incrementally fix validation errors as time goes on
> | and
> | >> me and Herbert sync upstreams.
> | >>
> | >> IMO, most of these look to be in good shape, I think.
> | >>
> | >> If you *do not think you'll make it by the 16th*, please let me know.
> | >> We can possibly still land it the week of the 16th, provided I know
> | >> ASAP. But we really really need to know, because many people will be
> | >> gone the following week.
> | >>
> | >> In the following few days, I'm hoping going to finish off everything
> | I
> | >> can in the patch queue, and fix my remaining bugs, and investigate
> | >> Dynamic GHCi in particular.
> | >>
> | >> Again, if you don't think you can make it on the 16th, but still
> | >> within the week, we can of discuss it.
> | >>
> | >
> |
> |
> |
> | --
> | Regards,
> | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671
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