ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Austin

The ticket (#5719) says "merge if you like but I don't think it's needed".  No one complained at the time, so Ian didn't merge it.  He's tried merging just the patches you identify, but they don't merge cleanly any more. So I'm afraid this particular fix won't be in 7.4.  Sorry.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-
| users-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Austin Seipp
| Sent: 29 January 2012 02:27
| To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2
| 
| Hello again Ian,
| 
| I noticed that in December, Bas van Dijk reported a bug in the
| implementation of ConstraintKinds/associated type defaults, and the
| fix wasn't merged to 7.4.1.
| 
| The relevant email thread is archived here:
| 
| http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-
| December/021318.html
| 
| The relevant trac ticket is #5719 here:
| 
| http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5719
| 
| The example in the ticket does not type-check with GHC 7.4.1-rc2, but
| it does with a copy of HEAD. There seem to be 2 commits that are
| relevant to this issue:
| 
| https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/416c5903f3b8cf4cdd4a03c8949489df18cd790a
| 
| https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/8785726b57ccd44c5451385de61913a79fe02eb7
| 
| Would it be possible to have these merged into the 7.4 branch before
| release? They fix the issue Bas reported, and eliminate the need for
| his kludgy fix which uses an Empty typeclass to get around the issue.
| It makes turning Set into a Functor much cleaner in this case, IMO.
| 
| 
| 
| On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
| >
| > We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1:
| >
| >    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/
| >
| > This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and
| > bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD.
| >
| > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
| > before the release!
| >
| > We expect this to be the last release candidate, with the final release
| > in approximately 1 week's time.
| >
| >
| > Thanks
| > Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
| >
| >
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| 
| 
| 
| --
| Regards,
| Austin
| 
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