RC Status

[Austin Seipp]

Hello all,

I apologize for the lack of updates recently. I'm well aware people
are a bit ready to move on, so the good news is we should be able to
do so shortly.

Simon and I talked last week, and for the RC to go ahead, we've
decided to punt a few tickets for the moment. The biggest hurdle is
dynamic support on Windows, which we've decided to punt.

I have put together a page detailing the current status with some more
detail about what's going on:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8

I spent a lot of time testing my (just merged) branch on several machines.

The highlights for interested parties:

 * OS X looks pretty good across the board, minus a `./validate` bug I
need to track down on Mavericks. 10.8 still needs to be tested (this
will hopefully happen soon.) Otherwise it seems to be fine.
 * With the dynamic stuff punted, Windows looks pretty good right now
too. There is some minor testsuite fallout I need to investigate. One
of Herbert's patches broke the 64bit windows build, and I'm bisecting
it. Then I'll test a win64 bootstrap.
 * Linux, as usual, seems just fine, and I just need to finish the
i386 bootstrap.
 * I need to update some performance numbers.

There is one final bug to fix, #7602, which is a performance
regression for OS X, but I'm investigating the `./validate` bug on
Mavericks first.

Once these look green across the board, I speculate I'll begin to make
the RC. I expect this to happen ASAP (within the week.)

-- 
Regards,

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