I believe #9078 affects all EDSLs that use Andy Gill’s stable name method to implement observable sharing. It certainly crashes Accelerate.
I would very much appreciate if 7.8.3 would be released in time to make it into the upcoming Haskell Platform. (If the platform would ship with 7.8.2., that would be a quite bad for all affected EDSL libraries.) Do we know the projected release date for the platform? Manuel PS: For Accelerate, the situation is actually rather awkward right now. Due to the changes re ambiguous signatures in GHC 7.8, Accelerate needs to introduce a breaking API change to compile with 7.8. However, we can’t really fully transition to 7.8 until #9078 is fixed. Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com>: > Hello all, > > After a long week, I've finally gotten a little time to reply to > emails, and I mainly have one question I'd like to ask. > > First, please direct your attention to this: > > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query?status=closed&status=merge&status=patch&milestone=7.8.3&group=resolution&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&order=priority > > This is the 7.8.3 milestone, but it only considers things that are: > > - 1) Fixed > - 2) Going to be merged > - 3) Are a patch to be still merged. > > That is, it is a solid representation of the difference between 7.8.2 > and the 7.8 branch tip. > > The question is: when should we do the release? There are several bugs > there that seem quite problematic for users - #9045, #7097, #9001, > #8768 and #9078 in particular. > > If these bugs are really problematic (and I sort of feel they are) > then the release can happen soon. I can do it within a week from now, > and we could punt more to a 7.8.4 release. > > I ask this because my time to dedicate to GHC is a bit thin right now, > so you must help me decide what's important! So please let me know - > just a general vote in favor of doing it within some X timeframe (even > 'real soon' or 'a week would be great') would be nice. > > PS: I apologize for the lack of status updates and brief email - my > time for GHC has been in very short order the past two weeks in > particular, and I've finally just returned to a computer (not mine) > for right now to ask this. > > PPS: This might also impact the 7.10 schedule, but last Simon and I > talked, we thought perhaps shooting for ICFP this time (and actually > hitting it) was a good plan. So I'd estimate on that a 7.8.4 might > happen a few months from now, after summer. > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
