Re: GHC 7.6 failes to build

On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 08:00:19AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> 
> I'm not quite getting this.  For all three (random, vector, DPH), are they used at all in the 7.6 branch?  
> 
> * If not, that's fine, but we must advertise that 7.6 doesn't work with DPH.
>   I think that's ok... 7.8 will come soon with DPH stuff.
> 
> * If so, we should surely test them in the 7.6 branch, and that means 
>   tagging them, doesn't it?
> 
> Do we build 'vector' solely because of DPH?  I think so.  Is the same true of 'random'?

vector, random and primitive, yes.

We don't build any of them in the branch so that we are testing that the
build works without them in the tree, and so there is no chance of them
accidentally slipping into the release source tarball or bindists.

We don't make the releases of DPH, so I've been leaving testing with RCs
etc up to the maintainers (i.e. as we do with all the other libraries on
Hackage).


Thanks
Ian