GHC 9.12 forked

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+ocaml at mega-nerd.com
Wed Oct 9 06:19:24 UTC 2024


Hi,

I have checked out this branch and built the compiler, but I 
notice that it still defines the same version of the `base`
library as `ghc-9.10`.

What are the next steps? Is there anything I can do to help?

Thanks,
Erik


Zubin Duggal wrote:

> GHC 9.12 has been forked, feel free to assign MRs to marge.
> 
> You can tag patches as backport-needed-9.12 for them to be
> considered for inclusion into GHC 9.12.1.
> 
> On 24/09/25 15:52, Zubin Duggal wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I hope to fork GHC 9.12 by the end of this week. To do so,
> >I need a few large MRs to land. The list is in this comment:
> >https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25123#note_585059
> >
> >Due to our ongoing CI capacity issues, I ask that you hold
> >off on assigning any new MRs to marge, particularly ones that
> >have not passed a full-ci pipeline.
> >
> >If you need your MR to be included in GHC 9.12.1, all you need
> >to do is add the appropriate milestone. If the MRs do not make
> >it in by the fork date, I will follow up on them and backport
> >them to the branch if appropriate.
> >
> >I will send an email once the fork has been successfully
> >completed and it is safe to assign to Marge once more.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Zubin
> 


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