Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.4.2

Thanks for the release! One quick question -- the release notes say "A bug in dependency analysis of type declarations in the presence of type families (#5826) has been fixed." However, #5826 seems to be about something entirely different (something about the user guide). Does anyone know the actual ticket being referred to? I'd like to read it in more detail but haven't been able to find it. thanks, -Brent On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 08:20:18PM +0100, Paolo Capriotti wrote:
============================================================= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.4.2 =============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 7.4.1, so we recommend upgrading.
The release notes are here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/release-7-4-2.html
How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Brent Yorgey
Thanks for the release! One quick question -- the release notes say
"A bug in dependency analysis of type declarations in the presence of type families (#5826) has been fixed."
However, #5826 seems to be about something entirely different (something about the user guide). Does anyone know the actual ticket being referred to? I'd like to read it in more detail but haven't been able to find it.
Ah, sorry about that. It's actually #5792. BR, Paolo
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