Upcoming GHC version (was: Re: Drastic Prelude changes imminent)

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 28 Jan 2015, at 09:53, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

> On 28 January 2015 at 10:16, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If BBP is going to be released as-is, can we please call the next
>> release GHC 8.0?
> 
> Isn't this actually detailing changes to base rather than GHC as a compiler?

The versions of GHC and the base library are inextricably linked.  You can't change the base library and keep the same compiler version.  (I don't think that is a good situation, but it is the way things stand.)

Regards,
    Malcolm