GHC release candidate

[Simon Peyton Jones]

|  Given that this bug has been dormant for 3.5 years, one might question
|  why it is suddenly of the "highest" priority :)

Only that (a) it's a seg-fault, and (b) it seems easy to fix, and most important (c) you kindly volunteered to produce a patch in a week.

If you can't, fair enough, so be it. We can push it out to 8.2.  Or maybe someone else (Reid?) might do it.

So feel free to un-volunteer!

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Geoffrey Mainland [mailto:mainland at apeiron.net]
|  Sent: 26 January 2016 15:43
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>; Skull
|  <george.karachalias at gmail.com>; Richard Eisenberg <eir at cis.upenn.edu>
|  Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: GHC release candidate
|  
|  I will try, but that's a bit tight for #11487---less than two weeks
|  from initial report to required fix, and I am teaching 3 courses this
|  term.
|  
|  Given that this bug has been dormant for 3.5 years, one might question
|  why it is suddenly of the "highest" priority :)
|  
|  Cheers,
|  Geoff
|  
|  On 01/26/2016 10:34 AM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
|  >
|  > George, Richard, Geoff
|  >
|  > We’d like to get a new release candidate for GHC out on Friday 5^th
|  > Feb.   Does that give you enough post-POPL time to get done?
|  >
|  > ·         *George*: The pattern match performance issues
|  >
|  > ·         *Richard*: the ReturnTv stuff (branch wip/exp-types)
|  >
|  > ·         *Richard*: #11471 (levity)
|  >
|  > ·         *Richard*: documentation for TypeInType
|  >
|  > ·         *Geoff*: #11487
|  >
|  > ·         *Simon PJ*: #11339
|  >
|  > *Richard*, also if you look at
|  > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.0.1 you can see
|  > “highest” priority tickets with you as owner, that are to do with
|  > TypeInType and TypeApplications.
|  >
|  > Thanks
|  >
|  > Simon
|  >