Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-10 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Just as a general note, with the push towards regular releases at 6 month intervals whose final release doesn’t drag out 2-3 month after the expected release date, I think, having few items on the status page is a Good Thing. So, let’s not cram too much in, as Ben wrote, 8.6 will not be that

Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-10 Thread Moritz Angermann
I’ll try to update the page when I’m back from VN. 8.4 - aarch64/arm linker for mach-o/elf - staticlib - iserv over the network - extended Q monad? (I really think we should try to iron this out for 8.4) - various iOS/Android/Raspberry Pi/... cross compilation fixes - llvm5 8.6 - llvmng? I’m

Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Evan Laforge writes: > I'd like to see this fixed: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13604 > > It's a show stopper that prevented me from being able to use 8.2 at all. David, could you see to it that something happens on this front? Cheers, - Ben signature.asc

Re: Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-09 Thread Evan Laforge
I'd like to see this fixed: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13604 It's a show stopper that prevented me from being able to use 8.2 at all. Once again, if no one has time to address it, I'd be happy to take a look myself. On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Ben Gamari

Call for features for GHC 8.4

2017-10-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The release of GHC 8.4 is quickly approaching, with a release targetted for February 2018. To allow plenty of time for stabilization, we would like to cut the ghc-8.4 branch sometime in November. Currently there are relatively few items on the 8.4 status page [1]. If you have a