Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform release schedule?

On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Bob Ippolito javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bob@redivi.com');> wrote:

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Releasing two platforms with the same GHC version is a recipe for disaster as well. It's currently designed to cohabitate with other versions of the platform and that is dependent on each platform release having a unique GHC release.

This sounds like something we need to fix, or we can't make HP releases more often than GHC releases, which could mean >1 year between HP releases (i.e. which is the case with 7.8 I think).

Probably not going to happen any time soon, cabal would need to know what version of the platform is installed, if any, to get the ~/.ghc stuff correct to prevent them from trying to use the same package database.