Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 892562
ghc-7.6.3 is available
Last modified: 2013-08-30 00:31:44 EDT
Latest upstream release: 7.6.1 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 7.4.2 URL: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
Latest upstream release: 7.6.2 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 7.4.2 URL: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
I have done scratch bootstrap test builds of 7.6.2 for intel and arm: x86_64: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4921062 i686: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=4921063 armv7: http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1412219 I put the "bootstrap" srpm at http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ghc-7.6.2-11.fc19.src.rpm [106MB] which if built with http://petersen.fedorapeople.org/ghc-7.6/ghc-rpm-macros-0.976.5-1.fc19.src.rpm should generate correct rpm dependencies with ghc-pkg-7.6. The next Haskell Platform release is due in May (http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/ReleaseTimetable) which will surely too late for F19.
ghc-7.6.3 has been released with one bugfix.
Latest upstream release: 7.6.3 Current version in Fedora Rawhide: 7.4.2 URL: http://haskell.org/ghc/ Please consult the package updates policy before you issue an update to a stable branch: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy More information about the service that created this bug can be found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring
initial ghc-7.6.3 bootstrap committed to git master
Any chance of getting this into F19? AfC
I am thinking about backporting after: - building for f20 rawhide and - after F19 GA (final) release but it is quite some work to do it and we haven't done a ghc backport in a long time. So I don't want to raise expectations too high and I will just say "maybe" for now. Most of the preparation for F20 ghc-7.6.3 has been done now, but nothing is built yet in the buildsystem. In the meantime you could try my test repo for f19: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/petersen/ghc-7.6.3/
Built for F20 rawhide.
I just ran up your testing repo on a Fedora 19 box, and everything built fine all the way up to a userland Snap web application. I'd say you can safely release a backport of GHC 7.6.3 to F19 users. AfC
Well I would like to but main problem is finding time to do that... Can people say more about why they need 7.6.3 now? (Personally I am managing okay with 7.4.2 in F19.)
(Also the problems I am seeing with llvm-3.3 and ghc on ARM make me worry about backporting to F19, even though ARM is not a F19 primary arch.)
Speaking for myself, I need the profiling fixes Simon made that cause IDLE time not to be costed. From a programming perspective, the move of `catch` out of Prelude is an annoyance and we decided just to declare < 7.6 a loss and move on. Far more importantly, however, is that the RTS performance is dramatically better for webserver class workloads. AfC