I wrote WinIO a couple of times when I meant to type Win32. Sorry!
On 23 January 2022 1:32:15 pm IST, Zubin Duggal <zu...@well-typed.com> wrote: > >> - More serious: why was Win32 major bumped from 2.10 to 2.12? >> - this breaks foundation, hence current Stackage Nightly is kind of >> broken for Windows now: >> https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/6400 > >We needed to bump Win32 as per a request from the maintainer made at >https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/20017 > >Bumping it from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1.0 ran into >https://github.com/haskell/win32/issues/174, which was fixed by >https://github.com/haskell/win32/pull/175 > >Given this, our options at the time were: > >1) Backport pull request #175 to 2.10.1 and wait for a new release of Win32 > >2) Revert https://github.com/haskell/win32/pull/160 in Win32 2.10, > which is what caused WinIO/#174 > >3) Use Win32 2.12.0.1, which contains the requested fix(ghc/#20017), as > well as the explicit exports added by #175, along with a few other minor > changes from Win32 2.11 which I don't think are responsible for any of > the pain discussed in the stackage issue. > >I made the decision to go with option 3 in the interests of getting the >release out. > >However, if I understand correctly, we would still end up with the same >problems as brought up in the stackage issue if we went with option 1. > >We might have avoided some of this pain if we went with option 2 and >reverted the offending commits from WinIO 2.10 instead of using explicit >import lists. But removing features from a major release of a library >didn't seem like a good idea at a time, and would have delayed the 9.0.2 >release even more. > >I hope this makes the reasoning for the decision clearer, and I >do apologise for any pain caused. I did believe that under the >circumstances bumping WinIO to 2.12.0.1 was the best way forward. >Perhaps option 2 would have been better in retrospect, but at the >time the benefits for such a change (in particular the regression in >functionality) in a major release of Win32 were not so clear. > >Cheers, >Zubin >_______________________________________________ >Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list >glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org >http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
