Re: HP 2013.2 and GHC 7.6.2

On 17 April 2013 13:44, Mark Lentczner wrote:

Can anyone comment on the state of cabal, and in particular the version that was shipped with 7.6.2?

We should only consider bumping that version if, like with 7.6.2, there is a major bug in it that will affect the Platform's users. If there is, we'll want to consider a point release in preference to a major bump to the "latest-n-greatest".

Here's one (admittedly small) issue I've come across: https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1065 I don't have bug numbers for the other issues, but there have also been some where "runhaskell Setup.hs configure --enable-executable profiling" didn't properly set the profiling options for an executable that depended on the library shipped with the same package, etc.

Let's try to keep this last minute bumping to a minimum!

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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On 16 April 2013 23:17, Mark Lentczner wrote:

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Thanks for all the switft work. Here's my understanding of the situation:

7.6.2 has a bug (#7748) in it, which also appears in a lesser form in 7.6.1. SPJ has a fix, that works for the minimal code given in the bug report. Others are now trying to verify it fixes the bug as it was discovered in the wild, in the hets package. Assuming it does fix, Ian will prepare a 7.6.3 release which is just this bug fix as a delta from 7.6.2.

Can we please get the version of Cabal bumped as well?

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If that is the state of the world, then we'll delay the HP 2012.2.0.0 a week for 7.6.3.

- Mark

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