Re: [arch-haskell] Haskell's state in Arch & near future

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote:

Hey,

Progress report.

There's now a ghc-7.2.2-1 in testing, but there are some complications. Mainly, that version doesn't handle removing of older haskell-platform very nicely.

Also, I've found out a little late that the 7.2 series is supposedly some sort of a "technology preview" branch. While I think it's totally irresponsible and moronic for the GHC devs to release a point release that's not supposed to be widely used, we'll have to think about if we really want 7.2 or do we wait for 7.4.

Any opinions on that?

I lean toward waiting for 7.4. This may be a way to let another chance to haskell-platform to survive. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr