| > You may ask what use is a GHC release that doesn't cause a wave of updates? | And hence that doesn't work with at least some libraries. Well, it's a very useful | forcing function to get new features actually out and tested. | | But the way you test new features is to write programs that use them, | and programs depend on libraries.
That is of course ideal, but the ideal carries costs. A half way house is a release whose library support will be patchy. Not such good testing, but much lower costs. But still (I think) a lot more testing than "compile HEAD" gives us. Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users