[headsup] ghc-7.4.1 coming to a rawhide near you soon

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

Hi,

This is just a headsup that ghc-7.4.1 is going into F18 rawhide. [1]
After that all ghc based Haskell packages will need to be rebuilt.
This major new version has a lot of new features and performance
improvements [2], also incidently including registerized compilation
support on ARM using llvm 3.

Jens

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GHC74
[2] http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2012, 06:19 -0400 schrieb Jens Petersen:
>  This is just a headsup that ghc-7.4.1 is going into F18 rawhide. [1]
>  After that all ghc based Haskell packages will need to be rebuilt.
>  This major new version has a lot of new features and performance
>  improvements [2], also incidently including registerized compilation
>  support on ARM using llvm 3. 
how are you going to handle Darcs: According to
http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5
the upcoming 2.8 will _not_ support GHC-7.4 officially, and only via
a .cabal flag, due to unresolved issues with filename encodings.

Greetings,
Joachim

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[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

>  how are you going to handle Darcs: According to
>  http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5
>  the upcoming 2.8 will _not_ support GHC-7.4 officially, and only via
>  a .cabal flag, due to unresolved issues with filename encodings. 
Right - I found this out myself and turned on the cabal base44 flag.
I haven't had a chance to test it yet but at least it built. :)

Jens

[Dag Odenhall]

On 26 March 2012 09:26, Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>  > how are you going to handle Darcs: According to
>  > http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5
>  > the upcoming 2.8 will _not_ support GHC-7.4 officially, and only via
>  > a .cabal flag, due to unresolved issues with filename encodings.
>
>  Right - I found this out myself and turned on the cabal base44 flag.
>  I haven't had a chance to test it yet but at least it built. :) 

If you do that it will supposedly break with unicode filenames in darcs
repos. Which are probably rare in practice, but still.

[Jens-Ulrik Petersen]

>  On 26 March 2012 09:26, Jens Petersen < petersen(a)redhat.com >
> wrote: 
>  > > how are you going to handle Darcs: According to
>  > > http://wiki.darcs.net/changes%20since%202.5
>  > > the upcoming 2.8 will _not_ support GHC-7.4 officially, and only
>  > > via a .cabal flag, due to unresolved issues with filename encodings. 
>  > Right - I found this out myself and turned on the cabal base44
>  > flag. 
>  If you do that it will supposedly break with unicode filenames in
>  darcs repos. Which are probably rare in practice, but still. 
Right, well I agree that is unfortunate but hopefully
the situation will improve when ghc-7.4 based haskell-platform
is released and before the release for Fedora 18.

Jens