<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In short, I think we already have the situation that you desire. Perhaps we just need to market it better?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Or am I mistaken?<br></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Except the current question is about how ghc releases interact with the Platform; this thread was set off by a question about getting 7.6.2 into the next Platform....</div>
<div><br></div><div>And the main issue there is that ghc releases tend to break things and need a lot of testing in general to make it into the Platform; while this would be expected anyway, even a point release (7.6.2 vs. 7.6.1) of ghc tends to be moderately violent with respect to the Platform. Ideally, such a point release should not be difficult to slot in because it should be compatible modulo bug fixes, but with ghc's release strategy nobody has any confidence in it being that simple.</div>
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