On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
> | > 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
Fitting:
http://xkcd.com/1172/
(sorry, I couldn't resist)
-- Gaby
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