On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:39:04PM -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Ross Paterson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:12:05PM -0700, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
The 1.1.3 version of time on Hackage was spuriously uploaded before it was finished and may be buggy. I'll look over it later today and patch it up if necessary.
It wasn't released today -- it was released 3 weeks ago when GHC 6.10.3 was released.
How did an unfinished version of time end up in GHC? Why wasn't the released and announced 1.1.2.4 used?
GHC releases use the darcs versions of all the libraries. These are then tarred up and put on hackage after the release. For the boot libraries there is a special branch created for the GHC branch, and we keep the branched versions as compatible as possible between GHC releases from that branch. For extralibs, we just use the HEAD repos. There is a plan to switch to using released tarballs of most, if not all, of the libraries. Hopefully we'll do that in time for 6.12. Either way, 6.12 won't have extralibs. Thanks Ian