GHC 7.8 release?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com> 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.
>
> That is of course ideal, but the ideal carries costs.  A half way house is a release whose library support will be patchy.  Not such good testing, but much lower costs.  But still (I think) a lot more testing than "compile HEAD" gives us.
>
> Simon

Fitting:

     http://xkcd.com/1172/

(sorry, I couldn't resist)

-- Gaby