#10726: Upgrade MingW-w64 distributions for windows -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Phyx- | Owner: Phyx- Type: task | Status: merge Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10.3 Component: Build System | Version: 7.11 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #9218 #9014 | Differential Revisions: Phab:D1123 #10435 | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by thomie): It's not up to me to decide, but rather the 7.10 release manager's: bgamari or thoughtpolice. It's a rather big change though, and hasn't been tested much at all (!). Such large changes usually don't belong in a point release. But since it should make the GHC Windows experience much better, maybe we should make an exception. I just have no idea if there are any serious programs being compiled with GHC on Windows that might break because of this patch, and neither do bgamari or thoughtpolice I think, so maybe that would explain their hesitance to include it (correct me if I'm wrong). Maybe you or snoyberg could send out an email to the various mailinglists, asking if any Windows user is against including this patch. Note: last I heard, it's not even clear there will be a 7.10.3 (I'm not sure why not). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10726#comment:16 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler