[GHC DevOps Group] Making GHC's fast release cadence work

Henning Thielemann lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Jul 2 12:36:19 UTC 2019


On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Simon Peyton Jones via Libraries wrote:

>  1. What should GHC’s release cadence be?  For example, would annual be
>     better than semi-annual?  Herbert and
>     Michael both think so, and they know a thing or two.   I’d love to
>     hear from more people on this question.

Annual is better for me. I do not need the latest and greatest GHC 
features immediately. I am happy to get bugfixes quickly and easily via 
hvr's ghc ppa.

However, I'd prefer that libraries are separated from GHC and 'base' would 
be split.


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