Breaking bug in 7.8.1

[Austin Seipp]

I'm now building the source distribution and sanity checking it before
I push the tags. Stay tuned.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
> This fix is now merged in the 7.8 branch and is ready to go. Unless
> someone speaks soon, I'm going to go ahead and start the builds...
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> This seems good to me. I'll go ahead and prep the tree then and get
>> some things ready.
>>
>> To everyone: I'm going to carefully review the outstanding patches etc
>> besides #8979, but I'm not inclined to take very many - if any -
>> besides this one. So if you missed the 7.8.1 train, but you *really*
>> want something in 7.8.2, please talk to me soon...
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Simon Peyton Jones
>> <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>>> Austin, Simon (and others)
>>>
>>> As you’ll see from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978, I succeeded
>>> in introducing a new bug into 7.8.1 post RC2, when fixing #8913.  And it
>>> seems to matter.  (Because of the windows seg-fault saga, RC2 was active for
>>> a long time, and none of our regression tests showed up this bug.)
>>>
>>> It looks to me that we have little choice but to push out 7.8.2, more or
>>> less immediately, and advise everyone to ignore 7.8.1.    Do you agree?
>>>
>>> Sorry about this.
>>>
>>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/



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Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/