
| > BTW, in GHC 6.2 with the -fglasgow-exts -farrows flags, you will be able | > to use either mdo or do...rec for monads and for arrows, as an experiment. | > (Maybe "rec" wasn't such a great keyword to take from the identifier | > space.) | | When can we expect 6.2? [Widening to GHC users.] Here's the GHC release situation. We've forked the tree for 6.2. Simon M is doing a bunch of house-cleaning on it (principally eliminating "casm", "ccall" and all their dirty cousins); there's still an open question of how much of the "bound threads" stuff goes into it; and we really have to fix the "errno bug", but there's some debate about exactly how. So the long and short of it is that if times were normal we'd release 6.2 in two or three weeks. But times are not entirely normal. Simon M is about to become a father (a second child, human this time, to add to GHC), and this event may distract him without warning. So far we have not been regarding 6.2 as ultra-urgent because we don't know of anyone who is really stuck with 6.0. Please let us know if you are in fact stuck. Simon

"Simon Peyton-Jones"
So far we have not been regarding 6.2 as ultra-urgent because we don't know of anyone who is really stuck with 6.0. Please let us know if you are in fact stuck.
I already mentioned that I really need large file support, and I'd add that I have some problems with profiling (segfaults, internal errors¹), both under 6.0 and 6.0.1. Is this known and/or fixed? And was there any answer to the original question:
When can we expect 6.2?
I can work e.g. the large file issue by using multiple files, but as it's going to be fixed RSN, I haven't bothered yet. An approximate schedule would be nice, I promise not to blame anybody if it doesn't hold. :-) -kzm ¹ If it's not a known issue, I can tar up one of these. It's a fairly large example, but it seems to be consistently happening. -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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