On 30/03/14 23:43, Mark Lentczner wrote:
*happy *bumped to* 1.19.3* *alex *bumped to* 3.1.3* *haddock *bumped to* 2.14.1*
*- but question about tying to GHC release still open: The concern is since GHC ships with it's doc built with the haddock executable it ships, will we have problems building the rest of the docs with a later haddock -- and having all the cross references work?*
It will work provided that the Haddock used has not had the interface file version changed. While we don't plan on doing this, I don't see why this is a concern: you're planning to use Haddock that ships with the GHC version you're going to use, right? All the documentation that will come with it will be generated with the same version.
As for GHC 7.8.2 - Where is the plan for 7.8.2 documented? It is barely mentioned in the GHC mailing list, and no mention in the GHC trac wiki, and the issues milestone has scant info.
I don't think there's an official plan but the window for 7.8.1 features is pretty much closed but there are still fixes &c that people want in. I think it has been pretty much agreed to (at least in #ghc on Freenode) that 7.8.2 is happening although I can't speak for the GHC team here.
I'm very reluctant to hold out for an unknown GHC release. Unless we have good reason to think that GHC 7.8.1 is a bad release and will leave scads of people with broken build systems.... I'd like to continue to plan on releasing HP in mid May (so on schedule for 2014.2.0.0). As such, unless the turn of 7.8.2 comes within a week or two of 7.8.1 - let's stick with 7.8.1.
Well, 7.8.1 is not actually out yet but from what I gather, 7.8.2 is to follow very soon afterwards. Again, this is just hearsay. As I mentioned, we have a pretty bad bug to do with Clang where everyone on OSX won't be able to build docs for certain libraries. I believe Austin found a workaround but I don't know if he's planning to monkey-patch that into 7.8.1 or not (and if he is, we'll have to bump the Haddock version anyway). I am sure there are other problems holding up the release at this point. Perhaps it would be worthwhile asking on ghc-devs?
Finally - note that part of my big push to totally re-write the Haskell Platform is so that we can all feel more confident turning a version more quickly if we need. If 7.8.2 comes out this Summer, and we think it is an important enough improvement - we can turn HP too.
- Mark
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