Planning for the 7.12 release

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:

> |  If this is intended to be an immediate wholesale switch to Shake I
> |  would be very skeptical of merging for 7.12 as three months is, in my
> |  opinion, very little time to test such a sweeping change.
>
> No there is no chance that we switch over to Shake for 7.12. At the
> moment it's nowhere near ready for prime time.
>
Thanks for clarifying!

> But I do hope that we'll have material progress on a side-by-side
> build system before 7.12 comes out. It probably won't do everything
> but it should do some things well. I hope.
>
Andrey, I look forward to seeing an update on things.

Cheers,

- Ben

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