GHC 7.8 release?

[Carter Schonwald]

Well said. Having a more aggressive release cycle is another interesting
perspective.
On Feb 10, 2013 6:21 PM, "Gabriel Dos Reis" <gdr at integrable-solutions.net>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 09:02:18PM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> You may ask what use is a GHC release that doesn't cause a wave of
> updates?  And hence that doesn't work with at least some libraries.  Well,
> it's a very useful forcing function to get new features actually out and
> tested.
> >
> > But the way you test new features is to write programs that use them,
> > and programs depend on libraries.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian
>
> Releasing GHC early and often (possibly with API breakage) isn't
> really the problem.  The real problem is how to coordinate with
> library authors (e.g. Haskell Platform), etc.
>
> I suspect GHC should continue to offer a platform for research
> and experiments. That is much harder if you curtail the ability to
> release GHC early and often.
>
> -- Gaby
>
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