Ben, thanks much for the update. It's not sad that you'll be at ICFP - I wish I could be there too! :) Historically ICFP has provided much of the juice that GHC runs on. Enjoy, and good luck with the release.
Regards, Yitz On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: > Yitzchak Gale <g...@sefer.org> writes: > >> Are there any updates on 8.0.2? Thanks! >> >> To put things in the perspective of yesod-based commercial GHC users: >> Due to #12130, GHC 8 is useless to us until 8.0.2. So for us this is >> the most important GHC release in years. >> > At the moment I'm trying to work out some issues with merging #12466. > This is the last issue on my queue other than doing basic build testing > on the other architectures. Sadly next week I'll be at ICFP so it's > unlikely that much progress will be made until the following week. > >> In our particular case, our products are now being held back in very >> concrete ways, because there are some critical libraries we can no >> longer update. The ecosystem has moved on to GHC 8, and we have been >> left behind. >> > Thanks for the data-point! It's very helpful for prioritization to know > these sorts of things. Don't hesitate to bring this up this sort of > thing early in the future. > >> In anticipation of the release, and after the delay in the RC builds, >> we are now trying to compile GHC from source on multiple platforms >> just so that we can already start on all the infrastructure work we >> need to do for this major upgrade. That way we hopefully will be able >> to sprint from the gate as soon as there is an actual release. But >> obviously we would prefer to use RC builds for that. >> >> Thanks to all on the GHC team for all your great work! > > Thanks Yitz! > > Cheers, > > - Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
