HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 17 April 2013 13:44, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone comment on the state of cabal, and in particular the version that
> was shipped with 7.6.2?
>
> We should only consider bumping that version if, like with 7.6.2, there is a
> major bug in it that will affect the Platform's users. If there is, we'll
> want to consider a point release in preference to a major bump to the
> "latest-n-greatest".

Here's one (admittedly small) issue I've come across:
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1065

I don't have bug numbers for the other issues, but there have also
been some where "runhaskell Setup.hs configure --enable-executable
profiling" didn't properly set the profiling options for an executable
that depended on the library shipped with the same package, etc.

>
> Let's try to keep this last minute bumping to a minimum!
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 16 April 2013 23:17, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Thanks for all the switft work. Here's my understanding of the
>> > situation:
>> >
>> > 7.6.2 has a bug (#7748) in it, which also appears in a lesser form in
>> > 7.6.1.
>> > SPJ has a fix, that works for the minimal code given in the bug report.
>> > Others are now trying to verify it fixes the bug as it was discovered in
>> > the
>> > wild, in the hets package.
>> > Assuming it does fix, Ian will prepare a 7.6.3 release which is just
>> > this
>> > bug fix as a delta from 7.6.2.
>>
>> Can we please get the version of Cabal bumped as well?
>>
>> >
>> > If that is the state of the world, then we'll delay the HP 2012.2.0.0 a
>> > week
>> > for 7.6.3.
>> >
>> > - Mark
>> >
>> >
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>



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