[Haskell-cafe] haskell platform question

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 7 June 2011 21:34, Tim Docker <twd2 at dockerz.net> wrote:
>
> Surely wanting to test against a ghc snapshot isn't that odd? How
> do others go about testing their code with many hackage dependencies against
> a new ghc? I would have expected that the first thing to do would be get the
> platform up and running.

Since the platform never uses the fist in a new major series of GHC,
for non-boot libraries the process is that the first new major release
of GHC comes out, code gets developed against that, then it's ready
for the next release of the Platform.

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