[commit: ghc] ghc-7.2: Don't get the dph packages by default in the 7.2 branch (138ce77)

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Tue Jul 12 22:02:10 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:05:24PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> Ian Lynagh:
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:04:39PM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
> >> Ian Lynagh:
> >>> 
> >>> We can certainly branch dph. What about primitive and vector (which have
> >>> darcs upstreams)?
> >> 
> >> How do you handle other packages with upstream repos?  We might want to branch them, so that we don't have to track changes to primitive and vector in the dph branch.
> > 
> > Upstreams haven't branched, but I have branched the GHC git repos. This
> > means that changes made for HEAD won't break 7.2, and we can decide to
> > stick with an old version in the 7.2 branch.
> 
> That sounds very sensible.  Let's do the same with primitive and vector.

OK; I've made a ghc-7.2 branch in the dph, vector and primitive repos.


Thanks
Ian




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