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 <svenpanne@gmail.com> 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.
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