Joachim Breitner
Hi,
Am Montag, den 02.11.2015, 13:21 -0500 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:
Personally, I would love delaying announcements such as these until binaries are available, at least for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
it’s a release candidate, announced on the developer mailing list. Isn’t such a mail a requirement for those wo build the various binaries to get active in the first place? Or is all done by Ben these days.
The Windows and Linux builds are done by me. The Mac situation is a bit more complicated as neither Austin nor I have access to an OS X machine. We are working on getting access to such a machine, but this takes time. Ideally, the first-tier platforms are supposed[1] to have a sponsor who is able to work with us to produce the builds and keep track of platform-specific issues. Sadly OS X has lacked such a person for some time. We've perhaps not broadcast the need for such a person loudly enough which is largely my fault. Regardless, it would be extremely helpful if someone familiar with OS X could step up to fill this role. To be clear, we certainly won't be cutting a 7.10.3 release until we know that the release candidate has been adequately tested on OS X. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms