I'm still not sure how to handle libraries that I modified with my primops change (#6135): primitive and array. There is some discussion on the core libraries commitee list and it seems that I'll have to further modify primops, and thus primitive and array, before 7.8 is released. Should I submit my patches to maintainers of these two libraries? Also, in order to make updated versions of the libraries compatible with older versions of GHC I would need to add some #ifdef pragmas. The question is whether we and package maintainers want that compatibility or should we expect that newly released versions of primitive and array will require at least 7.8 to run?
Janek
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Od: "shelarcy"
I've compared what versions current GHC HEAD uses w/ vs. what's currently available on Hackage (see below);
So currently, the following packages have newer versions available on hackage than are used in GHC HEAD:
- binary - containers - primitive - time - vector
In order to clarify a point that has been an issue in the past:
Can it be assumed that the GHC 7.8 feature-freeze scheduled for 14 Sept 2013[1] is also the library version freeze deadline, by which upstream package authors shall submit new package versions they want to ship as GHC boot libs w/ GHC 7.8.1? (and thus should be given an "heads-up" asap)
------------------------------------------------------------ package hackage GHC HEAD ------------------------------------------------------------ Cabal 1.18.0 == 1.18.0 array 0.4.0.1 < 0.4.0.2 base 4.6.0.1 < 4.7.0.0 bin-package-db 0.0.0.0 == 0.0.0.0 binary 0.7.1.0 > 0.7.0.0 bytestring 0.10.2.0 < 0.10.3.0 containers 0.5.2.1 > 0.5.0.0 deepseq 1.3.0.1 < 1.3.0.2 directory 1.2.0.1 == 1.2.0.1 dph-base 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-lifted-base) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-lifted-boxed) - 0.8.0.1 (dph-lifted-copy) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-lifted-vseg) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-prim-interface) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-prim-par) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 (dph-prim-seq) 0.7.0.1 < 0.8.0.1 filepath 1.3.0.1 < 1.3.0.2 (ghc) 7.6.3 < 7.7.20130826 ghc-prim 0.3.0.0 < 0.3.1.0 haskeline 0.7.0.3 < 0.7.0.4 (haskell2010) 1.1.1.0 == 1.1.1.0 (haskell98) 2.0.0.2 < 2.0.0.3 hoopl 3.9.0.0 < 3.10.0.0 hpc 0.6.0.0 < 0.6.0.1 integer-gmp 0.5.0.0 < 0.5.1.0 old-locale 1.0.0.5 == 1.0.0.5 old-time 1.1.0.1 == 1.1.0.1 pretty 1.1.1.0 == 1.1.1.0 primitive 0.5.0.1 > 0.4.0.1 process 1.1.0.2 < 1.2.0.0 random 1.0.1.1 == 1.0.1.1 rts 1.0 == 1.0 template-haskell 2.8.0.0 < 2.9.0.0 terminfo 0.3.2.5 == 0.3.2.5 time 1.4.1 > 1.4.0.2 transformers 0.3.0.0 == 0.3.0.0 unix 2.6.0.1 < 2.7.0.0 vector 0.10.0.1 > 0.9.1 xhtml 3000.2.1 == 3000.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------
Cheers, hvr
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