GHC 7.8.3 release

[Yitzchak Gale]

OK then. It's just a question of updating some scripts,
rebuilding and retesting. If these are serious generable
usability issues, you are right that it sounds compelling.
Still, it will add time, so Mark will have to decide.

Thanks,
Yitz

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel
<hvriedel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2014-05-27 at 12:47:53 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
>> 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?
>
> There's not been any change yet to base in the ghc-7.8 branch since the
> 7.8.2 release:
>
>   http://git.haskell.org/packages/base.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ghc-7.8
>
> as you can see from
>
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Libraries/VersionHistory
>
> it's happened in the past already, that 'base' was not bumped for every
> (minor) GHC release. It's rather the exception when `base` version
> bumps are performed for minor GHC releases.
>
>> 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.
>
> While I appreciate there may be packages affected by GHC 7.8.2/7.8.3
> changes, I still fail to see how artificially bumping base would help
> here.
>
>> 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).
>