It seems kinda to late to mention… but the release notes don't say that pattern splices are now supported in Template Haskell. A "big" new feature for Template Haskell I would say, and worthy of mentioning in the release notes. But perhaps for 7.8.3?
-- Christiaan On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm now building the source distribution and sanity checking it before > I push the tags. Stay tuned. > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote: >> This fix is now merged in the 7.8 branch and is ready to go. Unless >> someone speaks soon, I'm going to go ahead and start the builds... >> >> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Austin Seipp <[email protected]> wrote: >>> This seems good to me. I'll go ahead and prep the tree then and get >>> some things ready. >>> >>> To everyone: I'm going to carefully review the outstanding patches etc >>> besides #8979, but I'm not inclined to take very many - if any - >>> besides this one. So if you missed the 7.8.1 train, but you *really* >>> want something in 7.8.2, please talk to me soon... >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Simon Peyton Jones >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Austin, Simon (and others) >>>> >>>> As you’ll see from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978, I >>>> succeeded >>>> in introducing a new bug into 7.8.1 post RC2, when fixing #8913. And it >>>> seems to matter. (Because of the windows seg-fault saga, RC2 was active >>>> for >>>> a long time, and none of our regression tests showed up this bug.) >>>> >>>> It looks to me that we have little choice but to push out 7.8.2, more or >>>> less immediately, and advise everyone to ignore 7.8.1. Do you agree? >>>> >>>> Sorry about this. >>>> >>>> Simon >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> >>> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant >>> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant >> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > > > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
