GHC API Refactorings - To Merge or not to Merge?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:35:38AM +0200, Thomas Schilling wrote:
> 
>  (1) Ok, thinking about it, it would probably Ok to merge it in  
> after the 6.10 branch, but then backporting changes to 6.10 would  
> become very difficult.  Maintaining it as a long-running branch would  
> be involving, though.

If the 3 options are:

1) Merge before 6.10
2) Merge just after 6.10
3) Merge some time before 6.12

then I would vote for 1.

2 is a pain for merging fixes to the stable branch, and 3 is a pain for
merging fixes from the HEAD.

Also, I expect the number of GHC API clients is going to grow rather
than shrink, so if we're going to break them all at some point then we
should do it sooner rather than later.


Thanks
Ian