8.6.1 status

[Levent Erkok]

I wish I can offer more than just a request, but the following bug:

  https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15105

is rendering some oft-used packages on Macs unusable. (doctest being the
prime example in my case.)

It would truly be awesome if it was fixed in the next release.

-Levent.

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'll have to punt my changes for 8.8.1,
>
> The I/O manager is mostly working but it's taking some time to iron out
> the. Corner cases and ensure the behavior is not different than what people
> expect with mio even though the model is quite different.
>
> I have 12 failing tests but each take me a reasonable amount of time to
> diagnose and fix without breaking other things and I still need to optimize
> it all and add networking support.
>
> The linker patches require some more extensive testing so I don't want to
> rush those through either.
>
> At this point, both patches are huge so they would take a considerable
> amount of time to review anyway so they wouldn't stand much of a chance
> even if I put them up tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
> Tamar
>
> On Sat, May 19, 2018, 18:56 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>> Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> writes:
>>
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > As noted a few weeks ago, the 8.6.1 fork is quickly approaching.
>> > Currently the plan is to cut the branch on Friday, 1 May 2018.
>>
>> Silly me; the above is supposed to read "Friday, 1 June 2018".
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
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