Tentative high-level plans for 7.10.1

John Lato jwlato at gmail.com
Wed Oct 8 16:22:19 UTC 2014


Speaking for myself, I don't think the question of doing a 7.8.4 release at
all needs to be entangled with the LTS issue.

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Edward Z. Yang <ezyang at mit.edu> wrote:

> Excerpts from Herbert Valerio Riedel's message of 2014-10-08 00:59:40
> -0600:
> > However, should GHC 7.8.x turn out to become a LTS-ishly maintained
> > branch, we may want to consider converting it to a similiar Git
> > structure as GHC HEAD currently is, to avoid having to keep two
> > different sets of instructions on the GHC Wiki for how to work on GHC
> > 7.8 vs working on GHC HEAD/7.10 and later.
>
> Emphatically yes.  Lack of submodules on the 7.8 branch makes working with
> it /very/ unpleasant.
>
> Edward
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