7.8.3 for the Platform

[Yitzchak Gale]

Actually, as Mateusz just pointed out a few minutes ago in
a thread on ghc-devs, it now looks quite likely that there will be a
version bump for Haddock. In the context of one of the bug
fixes for 7.8.3, Simon PJ would like to change the interface of
a GHC function that happens to be used by Haddock.

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 03:31 PM, Austin Seipp wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I was planning on releasing GHC 7.8.3 very soon (in the next few
>> days,) and I'm wondering if it is still a possible candidate for the
>> next Haskell Platform?
>
> Actually there are few commits of changes to Haddock which fix a rather
> serious hyperlinking bug but I'm not sure whether this is relevant. It's
> on the 7.8 branch already. Just piping up in case it matters.
>
>> To be clear, there are no library updates this time around - 7.8.3 is
>> almost 100% a pure compiler/runtime bugfix release, and some of the
>> fixes are quite bad.
>>
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9078
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8768
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9148
>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9001
>>
>> The first one, #9078, would be particularly bad to let slip into the
>> release - it affects possibly all EDSLs using mkStableName for
>> sharing, and is very easy to trigger by allocating stable names
>> quickly. I'd say #8768 is somewhat nasty as well. Accelerate and SBV
>> are two examples of projects that will crash.
>>
>> There are currently no plans to even bump the corresponding library
>> numbers - we didn't do so for 7.8.2, and there are no changes at all
>> that would warrant a bump for 7.8.3. It's really a stability release
>> more than anything and irons out several real bumps.
>>
>> Do let me know what you think - I'll keep this thread updated as the
>> release gets closer if anything else goes in.
>>
>
>
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