Re: 8.12 plans

Matthew Pickering writes:

Patches I would like merged:

* Short ByteString Patch - seems stalled again

Indeed I think dxld was going to investigate the unregisterised regression but frankly I'm happy enough just to merge as-is. I strongly suspect that the issue is just a change in GC timing.

* My patches to allow compacting a ModIface - Need to put these up for review * Make Q (TExp a) a newtype (Proposal 195 -https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/195) - Not yet written but will not be a big effort

Thanks Matt! Added to the status page [1]. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/status/ghc-8.12.1