[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 is now available

[Tom Ellis]

Do you mean because you want to read the documentation, or is there some
other reason that base ought to be on Hackage?  It's not installable from
there, as far as I know.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 02:03:02PM +0900, Fumiaki Kinoshita wrote:
> Any updates? It's a crisis that the standard library is unavailable on
> Hackage...
> 
> 2019年10月4日(金) 12:30 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com>:
> 
> >
> >
> > On October 3, 2019 11:23:26 PM EDT, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >Any news?
> > >
> > >On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 5:22 PM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com> writes:
> > >>
> > >> > Will base-4.13.0.0 (which ships with ghc 8.8) be uploaded to
> > >hackage?
> > >> >
> > >> Yes, although it's currently waiting for someone with maintainer
> > >rights
> > >> for `base`, et al to push them. I have requested access myself
> > >although
> > >> haven't yet heard back.
> > >>
> > The issue (#17246) is still blocked on others. One issue is that uploading
> > the 8.8 boot packages first requires that hackage.haskell.org to be
> > upgraded and no Hackage admin has had time to do this yet.