[ghc-steering-committee] Re: GHC proposal: specification of static

I’ve asked Zubin about this, to which he replied: A deprecation warning is not a critical bug that warrants the effort and pain of a whole new release, including costs for tooling developers, CI systems and general ecosystem fragmentation over and above the direct costs of producing a release. I still think a deprecation coming in 9.14.2 is worth it, even if released only a few months from now. To add to my points before, many folks wait for the .2 release before upgrading to a new major version. Cheers, Rodrigo

On 15 Dec 2025, at 09:10, Simon Peyton Jones wrote:

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Is there a reason we can’t have a 9.14.2 release with just the deprecation warning?

Rodrigo can you ask Zubin about this? There are non-trivial overheads associated with a release. But a very minor release like this might have much smaller overheads?

I suppose the goal would be that the deprecation is embodied in a released GHC, much sooner than awaiting for a critical mass of bug-fixes to accumulate.

Simon

On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 at 05:14, Moritz Angermann mailto:moritz.angermann@gmail.com> wrote:

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Is there a reason we can’t have a 9.14.2 release with just the deprecation warning?

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM Jakob Brünker mailto:jakob.bruenker@gmail.com> wrote:

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Sounds like we're converging on that compromise. Any objections to accepting the proposal with these provisions? - Deprecation would start whenever 9.14.2 comes out (probably not for some months) - the change would take effect with 9.16 in about six month

If not, I'll take this as consensus by December 16.

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