Re: Upcoming GHC version (was: Re: Drastic Prelude changes imminent)

On 28 Jan 2015, at 09:53, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 28 January 2015 at 10:16, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:

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If BBP is going to be released as-is, can we please call the next release GHC 8.0?

Isn't this actually detailing changes to base rather than GHC as a compiler?

The versions of GHC and the base library are inextricably linked. You can't change the base library and keep the same compiler version. (I don't think that is a good situation, but it is the way things stand.) Regards, Malcolm