Re: [xmonad] Release?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:31:25 +0100, adam vogt wrote:

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Carsten Mattner wrote:

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From what I see I believe it's decided with a consensus after whoever does the required work of going through the bug tracker, write Changelog, NEWS, and release notes.

What's holding up a release with current darcs before the year ends? Does anybody have concerns with the reliability or backwards compatibility of the code found in darcs as of today?

Hi Carsten,

There might be some easy things to fix to get xmonad & contrib to build with older ghcs. For example, things like "import Control.Exception" can easily be changed to "import Contol.Exception.Extensible", if that's the only change necessary to maintain compatibility with something as old as ghc-6.12.

If it's trivial changes to keep it compatible, I'm all for it in the name of not breaking builds for users or packagers.

I've listed some highlights for the release I'll hopefully get out today: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.10

Adam, that's great news. There's a tiny typo: "issue issue"

Other things to remember for the release are listed in: http://code.haskell.org/xmonad/TODO