Am 28.02.2011 21:47, schrieb Ian Lynagh: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:08:55PM +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: >> Am 28.02.2011 13:33, schrieb Christian Maeder: >>> Am 20.02.2011 22:16, schrieb Ian Lynagh: >>>> >>>> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.2: >>>> >>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.2-rc2/ >>> >>> I'm surprised this is already the second release candidate for GHC >>> 7.0.2. The first release candidate was announced 16.12.2010 (and forgotten). > > Well, we couldn't have another first RC :-) > >>> Shouldn't there be a third candidate to be sufficiently tested? > > There's a trade-off. Building testing, uploading, etc, another RC would > be another 0.5-1 days work, and would put the release back by another > week (which also puts back the HP release, the 7.2.1 release, and at > this rate even the 7.4 release!). > >> I could not test much yet, due to >> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4972 >> and >> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4973 > > You mean that these stop you testing with the RC, rather than that you > think they're still broken in the 7.0 branch, right? You don't say what > package (and version of the package) you're using in #4972, so I can't > test it myself.
The package for #4972 is the programatica package attached to #4527, but this ticket is fixed for ghc-7.0.1.20110224. > You can also test with a more recent nightly snapshot that has the > fixes for bugs that you're encountering: > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ > The RCs just use a nightly snapshot as the source tarball. Yes, so I did. > If there are no known issues, I plan to release 7.0.2 tomorrow, though! Issue #4973 is not resolved (as I just found out). Christian > > > Thanks > Ian > > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
