release timing

[Randy Polen]

For the sake of the Haskell Platform users, I hope 7.10.2 will include the
following fixes in the accompanying haddock and cabal.

* Support for haddock response files to handle very long command lines (Windows)
    * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/pull/2512
   * https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1681
    * https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/285
    * https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/379

* Correct the cross-package links for all haddock-generated documentation (All)
    * https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/385
    * https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10206

The shenanigans I did to get the Windows HP built using a hacked up cabal and
haddock were not appropriate for a release (and so I never released my builds
of the HP 2015.2.0.0 on the Windows platform). On top of that, once I finally
got it all to build in this uncomfortable, un-reproducible way (e.g., hacked
PATH to hacked binaries), I noticed all the cross-package and index links in
the docs were wrong, which sealed the deal (as far as I was concerned) to not
release it.

I hope that the solutions to these two issues can be incorporated into 7.10.2,
so that build process for the Windows HP will be worthy and suitable for such
a release, and so that the documentation links will be correct and useful to the

users.


Randy 		 	   		  
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