headsup: ghc-7.4.2 and haskell-platform-2012.4 coming soon to rawhide

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi,

The Haskell SIG will soon be updating ghc to 7.4.2 and the just released
haskell-platform-2012.4.0.0.  At the same time there will be a big bunch
of pending version updates for various Haskell packages.  As usual this
will require rebuilding all the packages.

Apart from bugfixes, a nice feature of ghc-7.4.2 is ARM support for ghci
and hence template-haskell - apart from shared-library support
this will almost bring ARM ghc up to Tier 1 level support.

The plan is to backport haskell-platform-2012.4 later to Fedora 18 updates,
and maybe also haskell-platform-2012.2 to Fedora 17.  Of course these
would be done in separate Koji tags.

Jens