GHC 7.8.3 release

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

On 2014-05-27 at 12:13:18 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> 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.

What kind of version tweaks are you thinking about? (Afaics, the GHC
bundled libraries don't have any version bumps.)