GHC 7.8.3 release

[Yitzchak Gale]

Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Personally, I'd vote for a soon-ish 7.8.3 release for things which
> already have a working good/low-risk fix in ghc-7.8, so the next HP can
> go with 7.8.3 instead of using the known-to-be-suboptimal 7.8.2

It's not certain that the HP team will be able to wait for that,
even if 7.8.3 is released within a week. It would require yet
another round of version tweaks, re-testing, etc. Given how
dreadfully delayed the HP release is already, that would be
a difficult decision to make.

Regards,
Yitz