On 08/28/2015 07:33 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> writes: > >> Actually that’s a good idea. >> >> Simon >> >> >> From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Greg Weber >> Sent: 28 August 2015 16:43 >> To: Ben Gamari >> Cc: GHC developers >> Subject: Re: Planning for the 7.12 release >> >> Can we call this GHC 8.0 instead of 7.12 ? >> Overloaded record fields and backtraces are a huge missing piece to >> Haskell. It would be nice to have the bump to celebrate this occasion >> and say that Haskell 8 is "ready". I have had a hard time seriously >> recommending Haskell due to those last missing features. Now I should >> be able to say without reservation: "use Haskell > 8; it is great!" >> > I was discussing this very matter yesterday with a few folks. I think we > certainly have enough features in this release to do a major bump. I > half-jokingly suggested that 8.0 should only come with Phase 2 of > Richard's Dependent Haskell work, but I'm willing to settle for > merely kind equality. >
That could be 9.0...? Let's embrace the Firefox/Chrome philosophy about versioning :) I'm very excited about the feature list for 7.12 and I agree that it's almost big enough for a new "major" release. (Thanks to all the people who've worked on it, btw!) Cheers, _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs