Austin, you may want to say when 7.8.4 will come out. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Austin Seipp | Sent: 16 December 2014 21:11 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: GHC Weekly News - 2014/12/16 | | Hi *, time for another piece of the GHC weekly news! | | - Joachim Breitner has gotten the new GHC 7.8.4 package to | tentatively build on ARM quite easily for Debian. Austin also took the | liberty of merging all the needed patches; they'll be part of the | 7.8.4 release https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014- | December/007608.html | | - Greg Weber announced he's taken the time to set up a Docker image | for GHC development - if you're on Linux, Greg's image should help you | get up to speed with a GHC development environment in minutes! | https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-December/007606.html | | - Lennart Kolmodin has spent time working on autocompletion for GHC, | and 7.10 will ship with bash completion scripts - which package | maintainers and distributions can now ship for their users. Thank you | Lennart! https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014- | December/007614.html | | - Adam Gundry has a question about the new type checker plugin | infrastructure; in particular - how do we deal with the serialization | of type checker evidence that plugins may want to create or pass | around on their own? Richard, Simon and Iavor weigh in. | https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-December/007626.html | | - For the past few days, Richard Eisenberg has been hunting a | performance regression in the compiler. After profiling, discussion on | IRC and elsewhere, Richard has finally made some headway, and | discovered one of the 'hot spots' in his patch. Unfortunately the | battle isn't quite over just yet, and the hunt for a few more % | increase remains. | https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-December/007645.html | | - David Spies has hit a very strange situation with GHC 7.8.3 | running out of memory. But it turned out this was a change in 7.8, in | relation to how stacks were managed. Phew! | https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-December/007646.html | | - Austin made a final call for 7.8.4 bugfixes. He plans on making | the final release this week, if nobody has any other major complaints. | https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-December/007684.html | | Finally, in a slight change, we'll also be covering some notes from | this week's meeting between GHC HQ (Austin, Simon PJ, SimonM, Herbert | and Mikolaj), including... | | - The 7.10 RC1 looks like it's scheduled to occur this week still; | all of our libraries and submodules are up-to-date, and we've taken | the time to alert all of our maintainers about this. Thanks to Herbert | for taking control of this! | | - We'll soon be implementing a new 'push hook' for the `ghc.git` | repository: no more trailing whitespace. Since we've recently | detabbed, and de-lhs-ified the tree, a knock-on effect was deleting | trailing whitespace. Now that we've done a lot of this, we should take | the time to enforce it - so they can't slip back in. | | - Austin will be landing Phab:D169 and Phab:D396 soon to get it into | 7.10.1 RC1. | | - This week, Austin managed to secure two sponsors for | GHC/Haskell.org. We've been given a wonderful set of ARM buildbots | (running in the cloud!) and a new, incredibly powerful POWER8 machine | to use (with over 170 hardware threads available, for scalability | testing). Hooray for our friends at Online.net and RunAbove.com for | helping us out! | | Closed tickets this week include: #9871, #9808, #9870, #9605, #9874, | #9872, #9090, #9404, #8240, #9567, #9566, #9583, #9117, #9882, #9884, | #9372, #7942, #8951, #9817, #9620, #9336, #9523, #9552, #8988, #9390, | #9415, #9371, #7143, #9563, #8778, #4428, #4896, #9393, #9169, #7015, | #8943, #8621, #9132, #9857, #8024, #9831, and #9888. | | -- | Regards, | | Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant | Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs