Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

[Simon Peyton Jones]

| If I've understood #8736 correctly, GHCi on Windows can't load modules
| that
| were compiled with --dynamic-too. That's a pretty nasty regression, as
| --dynamic-too will now be the default for anything used by TH.

Well, five weeks ago we marked the ticket as "not a release blocker".  No one commented.   

And it's not a regression, is it?  I don't think -dynamic-too existed in 7.6.

We'd welcome help with this.  There is some reason it's not straightforward to fix, but I've forgotten what it is.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of harry
| Sent: 31 March 2014 09:21
| To: libraries at haskell.org
| Subject: RE: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0
| 
| Simon Peyton Jones wrote
| > We have not begun to think about when to release 7.8.2.  It’ll depend
| on
| > what issues show up in 7.8.1 and how urgent they seem to be.  We have
| > delayed 7.8.1 for ages, and given masses of warning about the release,
| so
| > I’d be sad if there are known, show-stopping bugs in it that we already
| > know about.  If there really really really are, maybe we should delay
| > 7.8.1 further.  But that process can go on indefinitely (as we have
| > already seen), so I’m pretty reluctant.
| >
| > But I’d certainly listen to a consensus view from the HP team. You
| > represent our customers.
| 
| If I've understood #8736 correctly, GHCi on Windows can't load modules
| that
| were compiled with --dynamic-too. That's a pretty nasty regression, as
| --dynamic-too will now be the default for anything used by TH.
| 
| 
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