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

Yup! Heck, one of the patches merged into 7.8.3 also makes it easy for a single ghc build to work on the full range of 10.7-10.10, which is pretty darn awesome. On Tuesday, July 8, 2014, Brandon Allbery wrote:

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Johan Tibell javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','johan.tibell@gmail.com');> wrote:

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Brandon Allbery javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','allbery.b@gmail.com');> wrote:

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The Platform keeps getting stuck waiting for GHC. The skipped release was because ghc 7.8 took some 6 months after "we plan to release just before ICFP 2013"(!); now it's waiting on ghc 7.8.3 bug fixes, which were "should be released by the end of the week" a couple of weeks ago. :( 7.8.3's bug fixes are significant enough that it would be bad to release a platform without them.

And we couldn't go with 7.6 because of some problems on newer OS X:es right?

Among other things, yes (ghc 7.6 needs to be patched to work with Xcode 5). 7.8 is supposed to improve some things on Windows as well; plus it'd be nice to have 7.8's improvements in general. But the OS X issues are the biggest user-facing ones, and come up pretty much every time someone tries to install the current Platform on OS X.

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