6.10.4 plans

[Christian Maeder]

When building ghc-6.10.3 I've noticed again:

1. ghc-pkg check:

There are problems in package rts-1.0:
  include-dirs: PAPI_INCLUDE_DIR doesn't exist or isn't a directory

after "make binary-dist" I'm left with an unnecessary .tar file and a
link (ghc-6.10.3 -> .). The mere *.tar.bz2 file would do (and is big
enough).

Cheers Christian

Ian Lynagh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Unfortunately, since the release of 6.10.3, still more problems have
> come to light in the 6.10 branch. We are therefore planning to do a
> 6.10.4 release.
> 
> For 6.10.4, we will only consider fixes for serious bugs that cannot be
> easily worked around. So far, we plan to look into:
> 
> * One of the patches in 6.10.2 introduced a problem where
>   mkWeakForeignEnv# could segfault
>   (already fixed)
> 
> * readMutVar# is inlined/duplicated
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3207
>   (already fixed, patch waiting to be merged)
> 
> * "Permission denied" errors on Windows:
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3231
>   http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2924
> 
> * Some ghci tests fail with hLookAhead errors. We would like to at least
>   understand exactly what is going on here.
> 
> If you find any other bugs that you think we should look into for
> 6.10.4, please let us know.
> 
> 
> We don't have any plans for when to do the release yet, but we would
> like to be confident that we have waited long enough for any other bugs
> to surface, and to have time for 6.10.4 to be well-tested.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian