Hello Mark,

One of the major anticipated features of this HP release is the OS X 10.9 support. Since the GHC version won't change for this release, I assume that everybody is confident that 7.6.3 + a clang wrapper script is all that is required? I'm just a bit worried seeing bugs like this one: 

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8490

Would be a shame to get a HP release and then finding out that we'd really need a handful of fixes from 7.8 to get things fully working on 10.9.

Also, regarding OS 10.6 64bit:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8094
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8511

The current HP page lists OS X 10.6 64bit + XCode 4.1 as a supported, but from what I can tell from my two machines this has been broken ever since HP 2012.2.0.0. I think at least the download page should be updated to reflect this.

Thanks for the update and sorry if I'm just bringing up some points that have already been discussed / resolved.

Cheers,
Tim

On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote:

I do - I'm just a lame-o this cycle!

Please review the status below - I'll have the 'prerelease' branch in github updated this weekend, and packages out (src tarball and Mac installers) out this coming week.

- Mark

Resolved Issues
  • fgl - haven't heard from Ivan, so we'll stay with the status quo.
  • aeson / dlist - log round'a'bout discussion resulted in decision to omit aeson this cycle.
  • alex / happy - I haven't heard from the maintainers on the major version bump, but they are both active here and so I'm assuming it is a go.
Current Proposed Versions
GHC 7.6.3 -- same as last time (erroneously listed as a version bump last time)

Packages with no changes:
        fgl, haskell-src, html, HUnit,
        mtl, parsec, QuickCheck, random,
        regex-base, regex-compat, regex-posix,
        split, stm, text, transformers,
        xhtml, zlib

Packages held back:
        cgi: 3001.1.7.5 (3001.1.8.4 requires MonadCatchIO-mtl)

Packages with minor version bumps:
        HTTP: 4000.2.8 → 4000.2.10 ☚ bump from prior 2013.4.0.0 list
        network: 2.4.1.2 → 2.4.2.2 ☚ bump from prior 2013.4.0.0 list
        parallel: 3.2.0.3 → 3.2.0.4
        syb: 0.4.0 → 0.4.1
        unordered-containers: 0.2.3.0 → 0.2.3.3
        vector: 0.10.0.1 → 0.10.9.1?
        primitive: 0.5.0.1 → 0.5.1.0?

Packages with major version bumps:
        case-insensitive: 1.0.0.1 → 1.1.0.1
        hashable: 1.1.2.5 → 1.2.1.0

        GLUT: 2.4.0.0 → 2.5.0.1
        GLURaw: 1.3.0.0 → 1.4.0.0
        OpenGL: 2.8.0.0 → 2.9.1.0
        OpenGLRaw: 1.3.0.0 → 1.4.0.0

        alex: 3.0.5 → 3.1.0 pending okay
        happy: 1.18.10 → 1.19.0  pending okay

Cabal:
        Cabal: 1.16.0 → 1.18.1.2 consensus seems to be that this will be okay
        cabal-install: 1.16.0.2 → 1.18.0.2


Platform Packagers:
This will be the last HP source release that contains all the ad hoc scripts for packaging. I canvased the group last time and as I recall, everyone said they just used the .cabal file - and no one used the scripts. I plan to replace them with a new tool built for the needs of the tarball release, and ditch this old set of scripts.
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