Re: 7.8 branch is created, HEAD is now open, and a note on merges

Thanks! I'll follow up with you shortly. My plan was actually to create a fingerprint of the repository, so you can just checkout a tree, use the fingerprint, and build the RC from that. The setup would just be a default perf build (i.e. no custom build.mk at all, just a regular boot+configure+make+binary-dist.) Right now I'm going over a few final touch-ups with Herbert before I start building everything (we might cherry-pick one or two minor things to base here momentarily.) After that I'll fingerprint and send it out. Also, for RCs, I believe we traditionally keep RELEASE=NO, so the version number doesn't come off as "7.8" but as "7.8.<date>" instead - indicative of it being "not the final version". So you shouldn't need to tweak anything - just use the fingerprint and build. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Páli Gábor János wrote:

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

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Two systems I won't make builds for RC1 by default (but could be persuaded to if nobody else does, and people want it): [..] - FreeBSD - Pali, if you'd like to do this, feel free, and let me know.

Sure, I can do it.

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This means I'll (mostly) be waiting around today, so feel free to shoot questions.

I guess it would useful to know exactly which version to build. That is, is it enough to do release builds (by setting RELEASE to "yes") with the HEAD of the ghc-7.8 branch (of today)...?

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