Is it OK if I release Cabal-1.18.0.1 on Monday if we want it to ship with GHC 7.8? 1.18.0.1 is a tiny bugfix release on top of 1.18.0.
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Yes I will try to review it this week. (This is the first time I've had > access to the code.) > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Austin Seipp [mailto:ase...@pobox.com] > | Sent: 09 September 2013 16:25 > | To: Trevor Elliott > | Cc: Austin Seipp; ghc-d...@haskell.org; glasgow-haskell- > | us...@haskell.org; Simon Peyton-Jones > | Subject: Re: 7.8 Release Update > | > | Excellent. Simon, are you privvy to this work at all? We lightly > | talked about it last week, but I'm not sure if you've reviewed it. Or > | perhaps Pedro or someone else could if we have time (I seem to > | remember he drew up the initial design points.) > | > | On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Trevor Elliott <tre...@galois.com> > | wrote: > | > Hi Austin, > | > > | > Iavor and I have got the data kinds syntax changes up to date with > | master, > | > on the data-kind-syntax branch. The -XDataKinds section of the manual > | has > | > been updated to describe the new syntax. During a validate run, there > | were > | > some problems building haddock, so I'm going to look into that > | tonight. > | > > | > There are tests for the data kind syntax in the test suite, currently > | on the > | > data-kind-syntax branch. > | > > | > Other than the haddock fix, I think that we're ready to go. > | > > | > Thanks! > | > > | > --trevor > | > > | > > | > On Sun 08 Sep 2013 04:27:33 PM PDT, Austin Seipp wrote: > | >> > | >> Friends, > | >> > | >> After talking with SPJ, we've decided that the cutoff date for the > | 7.8 > | >> feature window will essentially start on Monday, the 16th. This is > | the > | >> beginning of the week before ICFP. This is a week from tomorrow. > | >> > | >> Afterwords, I suspect we will cut the 7.8 branch in early October (my > | >> notes tentatively say Oct. 9th.) This will give us a few weeks of > | >> straight bugfixing. > | >> > | >> Don't let this scare you too much. We're doing this at the beginning > | >> of the week so we have time to sort things out. Bug fixes will of > | >> course continuously be welcome until the 7.8 branch. > | >> > | >> However, for pending features, I'd like a status update. Everyone > | >> mentioned below, please reply to clarify anything: > | >> > | >> * Iavor Diatchki and SPJ are working together on the type-nats- > | simple > | >> branch. I believe this will hopefully land in time. Iavor, SPJ - can > | >> you comment here? > | >> > | >> * Trevor and Iavor are also working on kinds without data. Any word > | >> here? > | >> > | >> * Geoffrey is currently moving, but he says the SIMD work and new > | >> template-haskell work will land by the end of this week, which is > | >> great. > | >> > | >> * Patrick Palka has a few loose ends to tie off for the parallel > | >> compilation driver. I talked to him today, and after Andreas > | committed > | >> his bugfix to base, I believe everything is now working, with the > | >> deadlocks sorted out. Patrick, can you confirm? We can get this > | merged > | >> ASAP if so. > | >> > | >> * Pedro and Richard - what's the story on propositional equality, > | >> etc? This is mentioned on the status page[1] but I'm not sure what > | >> else needs to be done. I know Pedro committed the work to make manual > | >> Typeable instances an error, which is great. > | >> > | >> * Luite and Edsko will be talking about some final changes to the > | >> hooks patch, and afterwords it can hopefully be integrated. I'll keep > | >> up with them this week. > | >> > | >> * I am currently working on integrating the Applicative-Monad > | >> warning, but this requires some upstream patches for the build to > | >> work. However, we still need to sync several upstream libraries, and > | >> this will be happening over the next few weeks. Therefore, I may > | >> commit it, and incrementally fix validation errors as time goes on > | and > | >> me and Herbert sync upstreams. > | >> > | >> IMO, most of these look to be in good shape, I think. > | >> > | >> If you *do not think you'll make it by the 16th*, please let me know. > | >> We can possibly still land it the week of the 16th, provided I know > | >> ASAP. But we really really need to know, because many people will be > | >> gone the following week. > | >> > | >> In the following few days, I'm hoping going to finish off everything > | I > | >> can in the patch queue, and fix my remaining bugs, and investigate > | >> Dynamic GHCi in particular. > | >> > | >> Again, if you don't think you can make it on the 16th, but still > | >> within the week, we can of discuss it. > | >> > | > > | > | > | > | -- > | Regards, > | Austin - PGP: 4096R/0x91384671 > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-d...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
