more releases

Herbert Valerio Riedel hvriedel at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 10:49:32 UTC 2015


On 2015-09-02 at 12:43:57 +0200, Ben Gamari wrote:

[...]

> The question is whether users want more rapid releases. Those working on
> GHC will use their own builds. Most users want something reasonably
> stable (in both the interface sense and the reliability sense) and
> therefore I suspect would stick with the releases. This leaves a
> relatively small number of potential users; namely those who want to
> play around with unreleased features yet aren't willing to do their own
> builds.

Btw, for those who are willing to use Ubuntu there's already GHC HEAD
builds available in my PPA, and I can easily keep creating GHC 7.10.3
snapshots in the same style like I usually do shortly before a stable
point-release.


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