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.

Ph.

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 <ezyang@mit.edu> wrote:

Excerpts from Herbert Valerio Riedel's message of 2014-10-08 00:59:40 -0600:
> 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

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