On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We've had long discussions about snapshot releases, and the tricky part > is that while we would like people to be able to try out new GHC > features, we don't want to add to the burden of library maintainers by > requiring them to update their libraries to work with a new GHC release > more than once a year. > > But perhaps we should announce a "library API freeze" some time before > the first RC on a stable branch. That way people can safely update their > dependencies at that point, and by the time the RC is out people testing > the RC will be able to test more without running into problems > installing libraries. > What would be ideal would be if this "library API freeze" coincided with the snapshot (odd-numbered) release. Then library maintainers would only have to update once, and hopefully many of them would have their updates available before ghc's stable release. John L.
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