On 2010/11/16 Vesa Kaihlavirta
Hey,
As you may have noticed, ghc-7.0.1 was just released. I've built the package and did some preliminary testing and the basics work fine.
So, anticipating the next haskell-platform version with ghc-7.0.1, I'll upload this to testing in the next 24 hours so we can start whacking at it.
NOTE that nothing else has been built on this yet, so everything else is bound to fail if you're following the testing repository.
Is it too late to use the "new" [staging] repository instead of [testing] for this ? It was aimed at large rebuilds, and it looks it is the case here. Many incompatibilities are expected: if GHC7 is supposed to enter the main repositories in 2011, [testing] may be too early. For example, the current version of mtl cannot be built with GHC7, but mtl-1.1.1.0 is compatible. I see that HP2011 may set mtl2 to be the standard, so we have the choice of either: * follow haskell-platform ML and choose to build the proposed contents of HP2011 in a test repo * keep HP2010 versions of the libraries unless they are incompatible with GHC7, and then do the minimal upgrade so that most packages remain compatible. -- Rémy.