Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

2017-07-27 Thread Evan Laforge
Thanks for the reply. I got cabal-install from https://github.com/haskell/cabal/ and assumed it was the latest version... but now that I look carefully I see it has a 2.0 branch. I compiled it and I don't get that confusing "parse error" any more. It looks like a nicer error message in general t

Harbormaster update

2017-07-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, Note that the Harbormaster builders now bootstrap with GHC 8.2.1 and LLVM 3.9. I'll be on the lookout for any failures but ping me if you see Harbormaster fail to build your otherwise perfectly good patch. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature _

Re: [commit: ghc] master: Improve error messages around kind mismatches. (8e15e3d)

2017-07-27 Thread Richard Eisenberg
> On Jul 27, 2017, at 8:01 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs > wrote: > > I think Richard just forgot to update the commit message. Indeed. Bah. I don't suppose there's a way of fixing that now. Sorry! Richard ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@ha

RE: [commit: ghc] master: Improve error messages around kind mismatches. (8e15e3d)

2017-07-27 Thread Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs
| typecheck/should_fail/T7368) Solution: track the provenance of | Derived constraints and refuse to float out a constraint that has | an insoluble Derived. For the record, that's not the solution that the patch implements. Instead we just don’t float heterogeneous equalities. I