[Haskell-cafe] base version numbers

Joachim Breitner mail at joachim-breitner.de
Thu Jun 16 11:50:27 UTC 2016


Hi,

Am Donnerstag, den 16.06.2016, 09:16 +0100 schrieb Tom Ellis:
> > * Makes it more difficult for a potential future where versions of
> > base are less tightly coupled to GHC and can thus be installed
> > separately (rather than needing a new version of GHC to get a new
> > feature from base)
> 
> Is that really realistic?

maybe more than I expected; see
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/haskell-core-libraries/TV0yGnfBTf4/7SJuOcfiBgAJ
and the following messages for a way forward.

Short summary: It is not unlikely that base could just become a
"normal" package that you can upgrade. The main blocker is that in a
build plan where there "ghc" library is involved this would require you
to be able to recompile that library. But Herbert seems to be on that.

Greetings,
Joachim

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