7.8 branch is created, HEAD is now open, and a note on merges

[Austin Seipp]

Thanks!

I'll follow up with you shortly. My plan was actually to create a
fingerprint of the repository, so you can just checkout a tree, use
the fingerprint, and build the RC from that. The setup would just be a
default perf build (i.e. no custom build.mk at all, just a regular
boot+configure+make+binary-dist.)

Right now I'm going over a few final touch-ups with Herbert before I
start building everything (we might cherry-pick one or two minor
things to base here momentarily.) After that I'll fingerprint and send
it out.

Also, for RCs, I believe we traditionally keep RELEASE=NO, so the
version number doesn't come off as "7.8" but as "7.8.<date>" instead -
indicative of it being "not the final version". So you shouldn't need
to tweak anything - just use the fingerprint and build.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Páli Gábor János <pali.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>> Two systems I won't make builds for RC1 by default (but could be
>> persuaded to if nobody else does, and people want it):
> [..]
>>   - FreeBSD - Pali, if you'd like to do this, feel free, and let me know.
>
> Sure, I can do it.
>
>> This means I'll (mostly) be waiting around today, so feel free to
>> shoot questions.
>
> I guess it would useful to know exactly which version to build.  That
> is, is it enough to do release builds (by setting RELEASE to "yes")
> with the HEAD of the ghc-7.8 branch (of today)...?
>



-- 
Regards,

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