My 6.12.1 RC queue

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:06 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 15/09/2009 10:12, Simon Marlow wrote:
> > Here's what's left on my list before we can put out the 6.12.1 RC:
> 
> Today's list:
> 
>   - fix the name of the binary package
>   - install/bindist issues (#3481, #3493) (Igloo)
>   - #3486: bytestring bug
>   - release notes (Igloo)
> 
> #3486 is fixed now, isn't it?

Subject to independent confirmation, yes. It's in the upstream
bytestring repo. There's the issue of ghc's bytestring repo fork.

> For the binary package, I suggest we change its name to ghc-binary, and 
> make it hidden by default.  And we don't upload it to hackage, of 
> course.  This won't stop determined people from using it, but it at 
> least forces them to do it on purpose.  Duncan suggested munging the 
> exposed-modules field before registering it, but I don't think that will 
> work because GHC will get confused when it tries to find a .hi file in 
> the package (which it might well need to do). 

Could possibly munge "exposed-modules" to "other-modules" :-)

> Any objections?

Ok.

Duncan