We're removing a lot of old/deprecated stuff in 6.2, so I want to be sure we haven't broken anything before doing the release. The best estimate I can give is 4-6 weeks, but it could be sooner if things settle down quickly.
talking about broken things: I've been reluctant to mention it so far, because I can't even give a reproducable example, and the problem only occurs on very large projects, so without a clue as to what might cause it, I certainly couldn't narrow down such an example, should I manage to pin down one. there seems to be a problem in ghc --make's recompilation dependency checks, which means that recompilation might produce inconsistent executables. the usual effect is a problem-free rebuild, followed by inexplicable crashes of the executable. removing the .hi/.o files and calling ghc --make again reliably solves the problem, which is why I suspect recompilation-only dependency checks (type/class changes not propagated to dependent modules?). sorry about this rather useless piece of information, but perhaps other people on this list have other parts of the puzzle, and it would be nice to get rid of this (haskell programs don't crash like this!-). cheers, claus