Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-04-19 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Donnerstag, den 19.04.2018, 20:01 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari: > Hello everyone, > > The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.2. The > source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this > release are available at > >

Plan for GHC 8.6.1

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello fellow lazy purists, With GHC 8.4.2 out the door, it is time to begin looking forward to 8.6.1. In keeping with our six-month release schedule, this release will be targetted for early-September, with the stable branch being cut in mid-to-late June. Remarkably, this is only 6 weeks away.

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.2 This release is a bug-fix release, fixing numerous regressions and

Re: GHC extensions

2018-04-19 Thread Ryan Scott
Hi Peter, > What does exactly happen if an extension is needed for a certain language > element, but it is not present? Generally, these manifest as runtime checks of the form (xopt LangExt.TheLanguageExtensionName dflags). For an example, see [1], where GHC checks if the TypeFamilyDependencies