The GHC 8.0 feature freeze is coming

[Ben Gamari]

Luite Stegeman <stegeman at gmail.com> writes:

> Is Simon's remote GHCi patch planned to go in before the fork? I'm still
> working on upgrading GHCJS to work with the master branch, but I haven't
> quite finished yet. This change would clearly require some restructuring of
> GHCJSi and Template Haskell in GHCJS, and I'm not sure if a week is enough
> to test the changes. Also the recent removal of boot file merging
> reintroduces a problem with that I'm not sure can be fixed without adding a
> new hook.
>
Simon, what do you think about this?

I'm a bit worried that this patch is quite late and breaks users like
Luite. Nevertheless, I am willing to hear arguments for merging.

> What's the policy on adding hooks or GHC API tweaks after the freeze?
>
We'll need to work that out when we get to that point. It largely
depends upon how confined and "safe" a change appears to be. That being
said, given how much other churn has happened for this release, I don't
think we want to be sloppy with merge discipline this time around.

Austin, what do you think?

Cheers,

- Ben
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