7.8.1 plan

[Carter Schonwald]

i second that


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <
chak at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:

> Awesome! Thanks for all the hard work!!
>
> Manuel
>
> Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > As I'm sure you're all aware, it's the final countdown. The (final)
> > source distribution will be up within a few hours, and then we'll
> > continue on from there. Yay! I will post an update when that is, so
> > Gabor/Luke/Karel can make binaries from the sources as I do so.
> >
> > Second, there are just two things I want to note:
> >
> >  - For people following the Windows debacle in #8834, there has been
> > a bug fixed, but one may still remain. The TL;DR of this is that we
> > currently have a committed workaround in place we'll keep using, but
> > Simon has made some good steps towards finding the bug.
> >
> >  - Lots of people, I'm sure, are wondering what's going on with Safe
> > Haskell and the GND story. The TL;DR of this one is that "everything
> > will be the same as in 7.6" - GND is considered an Unsafe feature, and
> > Data.Coerce is behind Unsafe bars. From a safety point of view,
> > nothing should change for library authors I cherry picked these
> > changes into 7.8 last night.
> >
> > In the mean time, the 7.8 branch is effectively closed. If you have
> > something to commit, and I *really* mean something, you can let me
> > know. But your deadline is hours, not days! I'm doing a final review
> > of all the trees before pushing the library tags, and after that I'll
> > begin rolling the sdist.
> >
> > Anyway, the time is finally here, so let's get it over with!
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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