Re: A modest proposal (re the Platform)
Carter Schonwald <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:23:32 -0500
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--===============8901976757060925353== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=089e0160c660df821a04f0a32567 --089e0160c660df821a04f0a32567 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Indeed. Perhaps more importantly: many long standing problems, relating to how ghci linking works on every major platform, and having win64 support, look to be resolved In 7.8. These are HUGE. Additionally the Cpp that's a bother on osx and bsd systems matter goes away for HP if the next release is using 7.8 (especially if a wee patch I wrote to kill the problem good this week gets merged in. ) On Thursday, January 23, 2014, Sven Panne <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a quick +1 for including GHC 7.8 in the next HP release. > Regarding compiler features, shipping GHC 7.6.3 again would mean that > the HP is still roughly at September 2012 (the first release of GHC > 7.6.x). Furthermore, I don't fully buy into the argument that we > should wait for 7.8 to stabilize: Power users will use something near > HEAD, anyway, almost all other users will probably use the HP. > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-platform mailing list > Haskell-platform-9EcH6oogKlu2EFrm9oAg2GD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org <javascript:;> > http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform > --089e0160c660df821a04f0a32567 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Indeed. =C2=A0Perhaps more importantly: many long standing problems, relati= ng to how ghci linking works on every major platform, and having win64 supp= ort, look to be resolved In 7.8. =C2=A0These are HUGE. Additionally the Cpp= that's a bother on osx and bsd systems=C2=A0matter goes away for HP if= the next release is using 7.8 (especially if a wee patch I wrote to kill t= he problem good this week gets merged in.=C2=A0<span></span>)<br> <br>On Thursday, January 23, 2014, Sven Panne <<a href=3D"mailto:svenpan= [email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gm= ail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-le= ft:1ex"> Just a quick +1 for including GHC 7.8 in the next HP release.<br> Regarding compiler features, shipping GHC 7.6.3 again would mean that<br> the HP is still roughly at September 2012 (the first release of GHC<br> 7.6.x). Furthermore, I don't fully buy into the argument that we<br> should wait for 7.8 to stabilize: Power users will use something near<br> HEAD, anyway, almost all other users will probably use the HP.<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Haskell-platform mailing list<br> <a href=3D"javascript:;" onclick=3D"_e(event, 'cvml', 'Haskell-= [email protected]')">Haskell-platform-9EcH6oogKlu2EFrm9oAg2GD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org<= /a><br> <a href=3D"http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-pla= tform" target=3D"_blank">http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listin= fo/haskell-platform</a><br> </blockquote> --089e0160c660df821a04f0a32567-- --===============8901976757060925353== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform-9EcH6oogKlu2EFrm9oAg2GD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform --===============8901976757060925353==--