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

[Jens Petersen]

> On 26 March 2012 09:26, Jens Petersen < petersen at 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