Re: Haskell Platform Update?

2014-05-31 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Friday 30 May 2014, 23:42:57, Caitlin wrote: > Hi all. > > I was just wondering if an updated release for the Haskell Platform was > planned in the neat future? The current schedule lists November of last > year as being the time for release candidates.. > > Thanks, > > ~Caitlin Yes, the pre

Re: GHC 7.8.3 release

2014-05-31 Thread George Colpitts
+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 wrote:

Re: GHC 7.8.3 release

2014-05-31 Thread Greg Weber
For me upgrading to 7.8 was very easy. The release slippage actually helped out with that. 7.8 had already been specified well enough and already had some active users for a long time. This made for a long window for package maintainers to update their packages to have 7.8 compatibility. Perhaps Oc

Re: GHC 7.8.3 release

2014-05-31 Thread Alain O'Dea
-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 st

Re: Data.Type.Equality.== works better when used at kind * -> * -> Bool

2014-05-31 Thread Richard Eisenberg
On May 31, 2014, at 1:12 AM, adam vogt wrote: > are > there instances of (==) that behave differently from the poly-kinded > version? Yes. To be concrete, here would be the polykinded instance: > type family EqPoly (a :: k) (b :: k) where > EqPoly a a = True > EqPoly a b = False > type ins