8.6.1 status

[Evan Laforge]

Also -fdefer-type-errors in ghci is broken for 8.4:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14963

I understand it's a complicated problem, but it would be sad if it
were broken for all of 8.6 as well.

At least how about a quick patch that emits a warning when it sees
--interactive -fdefer-type-errors and says this combination is no
longer supported?

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Levent Erkok <erkokl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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