Re: Breaking bug in 7.8.1

It seems kinda to late to mention… but the release notes don't say that pattern splices are now supported in Template Haskell. A "big" new feature for Template Haskell I would say, and worthy of mentioning in the release notes. But perhaps for 7.8.3? -- Christiaan On Apr 10, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Austin Seipp wrote:

I'm now building the source distribution and sanity checking it before I push the tags. Stay tuned.

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:54 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

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This fix is now merged in the 7.8 branch and is ready to go. Unless someone speaks soon, I'm going to go ahead and start the builds...

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

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This seems good to me. I'll go ahead and prep the tree then and get some things ready.

To everyone: I'm going to carefully review the outstanding patches etc besides #8979, but I'm not inclined to take very many - if any - besides this one. So if you missed the 7.8.1 train, but you *really* want something in 7.8.2, please talk to me soon...

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

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Austin, Simon (and others)

As you’ll see from https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8978, I succeeded in introducing a new bug into 7.8.1 post RC2, when fixing #8913. And it seems to matter. (Because of the windows seg-fault saga, RC2 was active for a long time, and none of our regression tests showed up this bug.)

It looks to me that we have little choice but to push out 7.8.2, more or less immediately, and advise everyone to ignore 7.8.1. Do you agree?

Sorry about this.

Simon

-- Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/

-- Regards,

Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/

-- Regards,

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