GHC 7.8.3 release

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

As far as I can see, the proposed fixes are all compiler and RTS fixes. (At least, it should be easy to restrict 6.8.3 to that. Austin?)

So, I don’t think it would affect the packages. And of what use is a platform that includes a compiler of which we know that it has serious problems?

Manuel

Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org>:
> Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
>> What kind of version tweaks are you thinking about? (Afaics, the GHC
>> bundled libraries don't have any version bumps.)
> 
> Well for one thing, wouldn't the version of base be bumped?
> 
> If the bugs fixed in 7.8.3 affect any packages in the platform,
> we would want to make whatever changes are needed to make sure
> that the fixes work for them - at least bumping base. Then
> everything would need to be re-built and re-tested. And if
> no packages in the platform are affected, then given the
> ridiculous delay of the platform release already, it's harder
> justify waiting any longer. Like I said - it would be a difficult
> decision (and not mine to make).
> 
> -Yitz
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