Hi Austin, Could you consider #9012 for 7.8.3?
* Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> [2014-05-05 11:54:20-0500] > Hi all, > > - The HCAR entry was quickly completed last week thanks to everyone, > much appreciated for the quick response! And it made me aware of some > other new things in the pipeline, too. :) > > - Simon is in-progress reviewing the ORF work still. But it's > happening, so be patient of course (it's a large patch after all). > > - After a short discussion last week and a small grace period I > killed external core, and removed all traces of it from the GHC tree. > We constantly add things to GHC as Richard noted, so removing > something was nice, even if a little sad. The result was about 3,000 > fewer lines in the source tree. > > - I need to send a patch upstream to Ross for the AMP changes, but I > slacked off a bit since the release of the new transformers got pushed > back, pending some discussions on librar...@haskell.org - I'll be > sending the results to Ross later today. > > - I spent some time working on removing the need for a build from > creation of the source distribution like I mentioned last week - so > 'make sdist' almost works out of the box. I believe it works fine, but > it needs some more testing, and I feel like I should float the patch > by for review on the list first, Simon in particular might have > something to say. Do watch this space. > > - I'm going to continue working on trying HEAD with Stackage and > putting the results somewhere, I just sort of left this as is right > now. > > Also, remember from last week, the 7.8.3 milestone has been shaped up > to be what we will look at - please do look over the tickets here when > you get a chance! I'll be likely seeing if any new tickets will go > here today: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/milestone/7.8.3 > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=infoneeded&status=merge&status=new&status=patch&group=status&milestone=7.8.3 > > Some other things worth noting: > > - It's time to merge up a lot of the patch queue. I'll be doing that > soon - if you floated a patch by and want to discuss it or you want to > make me aware of a patch you have, please let me know. At worst you > will just inform me of something I already knew. > > - Side note, since a few people might be keen to know - Herbert took > the time this week to move darcs.haskell.org onto a new server, > effectively putting it in legacy mode. The switch has not yet > happened, because we need to do a DNS switch. > > That's all, it was pretty light this week for me actually! We didn't > actually have a call today yet actually, but we will have one next > week and have more to say for sure. > > Do let me know if you have questions. > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
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