| Given that this bug has been dormant for 3.5 years, one might question
| why it is suddenly of the "highest" priority :)
Only that (a) it's a seg-fault, and (b) it seems easy to fix, and most important (c) you kindly volunteered to produce a patch in a week.
If you can't, fair enough, so be it. We can push it out to 8.2. Or maybe someone else (Reid?) might do it.
So feel free to un-volunteer!
Simon
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Geoffrey Mainland [mailto:mainland@apeiron.net]
| Sent: 26 January 2016 15:43
| To: Simon Peyton Jones ; Skull
| ; Richard Eisenberg
| Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: GHC release candidate
|
| I will try, but that's a bit tight for #11487---less than two weeks
| from initial report to required fix, and I am teaching 3 courses this
| term.
|
| Given that this bug has been dormant for 3.5 years, one might question
| why it is suddenly of the "highest" priority :)
|
| Cheers,
| Geoff
|
| On 01/26/2016 10:34 AM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:
| >
| > George, Richard, Geoff
| >
| > We’d like to get a new release candidate for GHC out on Friday 5^th
| > Feb. Does that give you enough post-POPL time to get done?
| >
| > · *George*: The pattern match performance issues
| >
| > · *Richard*: the ReturnTv stuff (branch wip/exp-types)
| >
| > · *Richard*: #11471 (levity)
| >
| > · *Richard*: documentation for TypeInType
| >
| > · *Geoff*: #11487
| >
| > · *Simon PJ*: #11339
| >
| > *Richard*, also if you look at
| > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.0.1 you can see
| > “highest” priority tickets with you as owner, that are to do with
| > TypeInType and TypeApplications.
| >
| > Thanks
| >
| > Simon
| >
