GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask abou the status of your contributions. In each case could you update the wiki with the current state of play, and your intentions, including dates. That is, don't put your reply in email: it on the status page below; though by all mean

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-04 Thread Thomas Schilling
nsky; ghc- > | d...@haskell.org > | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status > | > | > | On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:52, Simon Peyton-Jones > | wrote: > | > | > Edsko/Thomas/Luite: if you want anything for 7.8 it'll have to be > | jolly soon. At the moment I don't e

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-04 Thread Luite Stegeman
@cis.upenn.edu); Geoffrey Mainland > > | (mainl...@cs.drexel.edu); Iavor Diatchki; Austin Seipp; Edsko de > Vries; > > | Ryan Newton (rrnew...@gmail.com); David Luposchainsky; ghc- > > | d...@haskell.org > > | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status > > | > > |

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-04 Thread Luke Iannini
gt; | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Luite Stegeman >> > | Cc: Nicolas Frisby; "Pedro Magalhães (drei...@gmail.com)"; Richard >> > | Eisenberg (e...@cis.upenn.edu); Geoffrey Mainland >> > | (mainl...@cs.drexel.edu); Iavor Diatchki; Austin Seipp; Edsko de >> Vries; >&

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Iavor Diatchki mailto:iavor.diatc...@gmail.com>> wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Simon Peyton-Jones mailto:simo...@microsoft.com>> Date: Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:52 AM Subject: GHC 7.8 release status To: Nicolas Frisby mailto:nicolas.fri...@gmail.com>>, "Pedro

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-05 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
05 September 2013 02:10 To: Thomas Schilling Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status I've updated the wiki page, expanding the descriptions and adding code from the actual implementation: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Ghc/Hooks An demo progr

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-07 Thread Luite Stegeman
· **Why aren’t you using Data.Dynamic for the hook things? You are precisely doing dynamic typing after all. (Moreover I want to change Data.Dynamic so that it says > data Dynamic where > Dyn :: Typeable a => a -> Dynamic > and you want to take advantage of this. > Ah the

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Austin Seipp
s that sound ok? >> >> >> >> Simon >> >> >> >> From: Luite Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] >> Sent: 07 September 2013 22:04 >> To: Simon Peyton-Jones >> Cc: Thomas Schilling; Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs >> >> >> Subjec

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Edsko de Vries
ion. And then you two, with Thomas > and other interested parties, work together to evolve a design that everyone > is happy with. > > > > Does that sound ok? > > > > Simon > > > > From: Luite Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] > Sent: 07 September 2013 22:

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-09 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Edsko de Vries; ghc-devs Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status * Why aren't you using Data.Dynamic for the hook things? You are precisely doing dynamic typing after all. (Moreover I want to change Data.Dynamic so that it says data Dynamic where Dyn :: Typeable a =>

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-10 Thread Luite Stegeman
interested parties, work together to evolve a design that > everyone > > is happy with. > > > > > > > > Does that sound ok? > > > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > > From: Luite Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] > &g

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
te Stegeman [mailto:stege...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 September 2013 08:37 To: Edsko de Vries Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; ghc-devs; Edsko de Vries Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status Edsko has done some work of rearranging imports in DynFlags to make the DLL split work, and I've implemented the hoo

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-11 Thread Edsko de Vries
t clear to me why exactly those are the right places. But I suppose > they are simply driven by what has been needed. > > > > Anyway if you two are happy (no one else seems to mind either way) then go > ahead. > > > > Simon > > > > > > From: L

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-09-11 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
which tries to document some these loops too. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Edsko de Vries [mailto:edskodevr...@gmail.com] | Sent: 11 September 2013 15:33 | To: Simon Peyton-Jones | Cc: Luite Stegeman; ghc-devs; Edsko de Vries | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status | | Hi all, | |

GHC 7.8 Release Status & Schedule

2013-10-05 Thread Austin Seipp
Friends, After talking with Simon yesterday, we have some idea of how the release will go. As I'm sure you're aware, the release is winding down rather quickly, and it will be a fantastic one hopefully :) Now that all the features have landed, we're going into bugfixing mode. The schedule is, rou

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated; atomics branch is merged. The only further work I plan to do in the near term is add additional tests. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > Friends > > The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask abou the status of you

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
@gmail.com); David Luposchainsky; ghc- | d...@haskell.org | Subject: Re: GHC 7.8 release status | | | On 4 Sep 2013, at 15:52, Simon Peyton-Jones | wrote: | | > Edsko/Thomas/Luite: if you want anything for 7.8 it'll have to be | jolly soon. At the moment I don't even know the moti

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Austin Seipp
Thank you Ryan! I'll be getting my ARMv7 build machine back online today, hopefully. Jens Peterson reported he had a working ARMv7 build to me today from HEAD, which is good news. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Newton wrote: > Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated; atomics branch is m

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
By the way, the parallel IO manager is also new in 7.8 right? I'm not sure but I think it may have something to do with the excessive system time bug I just filed: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8224 ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskel

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Andreas Voellmy
Yes, the parallel IO manager is new in 7.8. Thanks for reminding me of that excessive system time issue. That's been nagging me for a while. Hopefully I can find some time in the coming days to look at this again. -Andi On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Ryan Newton wrote: > By the way, the para

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-14 Thread Andreas Voellmy
I added a note about the parallel IO manager status to https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8. There are two issues I'd still like to resolve. Is there a target date for the release? -Andi On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Andreas Voellmy wrote: > Yes, the parallel IO manager is n

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-14 Thread Andreas Voellmy
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Andreas Voellmy wrote: > I added a note about the parallel IO manager status to > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.8. There are two > issues I'd still like to resolve. Is there a target date for the release? > Oh, I just noticed http://permali

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-14 Thread Nicolas Frisby
Unless I missed an RC announcement, I'm pretty sure we're running a little behind the schedule from that email. Deciders, has the Nov 25 target slid back? Any new estimates, if so? Thanks much. On Nov 14, 2013 9:40 PM, "Andreas Voellmy" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Andreas V

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Nicolas, I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the update. Right now I am endlessly battling windows, and while I actually DO have a dynamic GHC working for windows with the DLL split (#5987,) it is segfaulting in the stage2 compiler when compiling the 'time' library, an

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Carter Schonwald
What are ways for other folks to help? (If possible) On Friday, November 15, 2013, Austin Seipp wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the update. > > Right now I am endlessly battling windows, and while I actually DO > have a dynamic GHC working for

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-15 Thread Nicolas Frisby
I did get it. And I certainly appreciate that there's a lot of work happening. I just didn't see any answers to my date-related questions in it. Thanks. On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Austin Seipp wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > I apologize if you didn't get the notice I sent last week on the updat

Re: GHC 7.8 Release Status & Schedule

2013-10-09 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Austin Seipp wrote: > - Nov 1st: Cut branch, and I plan on making a 7.8 RC1 available the > same day, for several platforms. > Hi, Austin - Thanks for writing this up. One of the factors that's blocking my ability to build Hackage packages is that Hackage does

Re: GHC 7.8 Release Status & Schedule

2013-10-09 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > One of the factors that's blocking my ability to build Hackage packages is > that Hackage does not contain versions of a number of bundled-with-GHC > packages that have versions matching the versions shipping with HEAD. It > would unblock t

Re: GHC 7.8 Release Status & Schedule

2013-10-09 Thread Carter Schonwald
Indeed. There's a few straggling things but overall we're in feature freeze overall right now, right? On Wednesday, October 9, 2013, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan > > > wrote: > > One of the factors that's blocking my ability to build Hackage packages >