GHC 7.8 release status

[Austin Seipp]

Thank you Ryan!

I'll be getting my ARMv7 build machine back online today, hopefully.
Jens Peterson reported he had a working ARMv7 build to me today from
HEAD, which is good news.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnewton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the reminder.  Wiki is updated; atomics branch is merged.  The
> only further work I plan to do in the near term is add additional tests.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Friends
>>
>> The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask abou the status of your
>> contributions.  In each case could you update the wiki with the current
>> state of play, and your intentions, including dates.   That is, don’t put
>> your reply in email: it on the status page below; though by all means send
>> email too!
>>
>> Summary here: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8
>>
>> Also : What is missing from the list that should be done?
>>
>> ·         Patrick Palka: status of ghc –make –j?
>>
>> ·         Nick: status of your three items?
>>
>> ·         Pedro/Richard: is all the Typeable stuff, and gcast and friends,
>> finished?
>>
>> ·         Geoff: what about the new Template Haskell story?
>>
>> ·         Iavor: when do you think you can merge?
>>
>> ·         Austin: what about ARMv7?
>>
>> ·         Edsko/Thomas/Luite: if you want anything for 7.8 it’ll have to
>> be jolly soon.  At the moment I don’t even know the motivation or design,
>> let alone implementation.  Could you make a wiki page explaining the
>> proposed design?  Is it really important to do this for 7.8?
>>
>> ·         Dynamic GHCi.  I have no idea who is driving this, or how
>> important it is.
>>
>> ·         Ryan: atomic stuff.  All merged?
>>
>> ·         AMP warnings: David Luposchainsky is driving this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Simon
>>
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Regards,
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