ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.1 Release Candidate

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:26:05 +0100,
Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:55:21AM +0200, Stefan Holdermans wrote:
> > 
> > >We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.1.
> > 
> > That's 6.8, right? Or have I missed something?
> 
> No, it's 6.8.1:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/version-numbering.html

Seems like something is wrong with this version number though:

    Snapshots beginning with 6.8.20070909 are release candidates for 6.8.1

In many version numbering schemes, 6.8.20070909 would be a higher
version than 6.8.1.

According to policy:

    Stable snapshot releases are named x.y.z.YYYYMMDD. where YYYYMMDD
    is the date of the sources from which the snapshot was built, and
    x.y.z+1 is the next release to be made on that branch. For
    example, 6.8.1.20040225 would be a snapshot of the 6.8 branch
    during the development of 6.8.2.

*Main> let version (x,y,z+1) date = concat [ show x, ".", show y, ".", show z, ".", date]
*Main> version (6,8,1) "20070909"
"6.8.0.20070909"

;)

j.