I’m with John wrt. the discussions on LTS and the 7.8.4 release being orthogonal.
Especially if 7.8 does not have submodules and if this is a pain, there’s also no reason to backport our approach to LTS into 7.8. In other words, 7.10 could also be the first LTS version.
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From: John Lato [mailto:jwlato@gmail.com]
Sent: woensdag 8 oktober 2014 18:22
To: Edward Z. Yang
Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org; Simon Marlow
Subject: Re: Tentative high-level plans for 7.10.1
Speaking for myself, I don't think the question of doing a 7.8.4 release at all needs to be entangled with the LTS issue.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Edward Z. Yang
However, should GHC 7.8.x turn out to become a LTS-ishly maintained branch, we may want to consider converting it to a similiar Git structure as GHC HEAD currently is, to avoid having to keep two different sets of instructions on the GHC Wiki for how to work on GHC 7.8 vs working on GHC HEAD/7.10 and later.
Emphatically yes. Lack of submodules on the 7.8 branch makes working with it /very/ unpleasant. Edward _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.orgmailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs