-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/31/2014 12:28 PM, George Colpitts wrote: > +1 > > Stability is very important. > > Also, do we have an ETA for when we will have an improved > infrastructure for automated builds and the associated tests. I > think this would help a lot with stability and shorten the time to > the next release. > > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Simon Marlow <marlo...@gmail.com > <mailto:marlo...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 27/05/14 09:06, Austin Seipp wrote: > > 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. > > > FWIW, I think doing 7.10 in October is way too soon. Major > releases create a large distributed effort for package maintainers > and users, and there are other knock-on effects, so we shouldn't do > them too often. A lot of our users want stability, while many of > them also want progress, and 12 months between major releases is > the compromise we settled on. > > The last major release slipped for various reasons, but I don't > believe that means we should try to get back on track by having a > short time between 7.8 and 7.10. 7.8 will be out of maintenance > when it has only just made it into a platform release. > > Anyway, that's my opinion. Of course if everyone says they don't > mind a 7.10 in October then I withdraw my objection :-) > > (as a data point, upgrading to 7.8 at work cost me three weeks, > but we're probably a special case) > > Cheers, Simon
Hi George: There are continuous builds of GHC HEAD on several platforms and architectures: http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/builders/ There are still some bugs to work out there for sure (particularly mine on SmartOS), but a lot of progress has been made. The most critical gap is the lack of Windows and OS X builders since they are Tier 1 platforms for GHC. If you have Windows or OS X machines available please consider offering a builder: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Builder Best, Alain -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEbBAEBAgAGBQJTikGBAAoJEP0rIXJNjNSA/KsH+I7mug5uqHDr5YzZJSPl0awS 1PudhQqnBLf8Op/IQuPR7lYZEsXNTUb+VU1vV0vEo8+nRAaueVlhffsXYe7YRRHF wQqA1WsmIfwwDsU2DkeVOhKMht9iB1eKC3vvsTEvZE8GJKvQZDTIeas5QtUki/i0 yuTPrRMZjf6IubsxeY90mlDCgpRMjRIWcRPm9fWj7c0wdzUNmMR0IPshMiXjZbbM US9hkoyuXUyYZrtn19vbPGNTss3gZJEqengyDNDyVNrEd4QXC8Us/dqbnbjrKPI3 8D9BbVTOyELJ44mFXmlcXT8DSfIYCAv/sS81sXNm4lQX3jhTOyx2hNa3jvqIrQ== =sZkd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
