[darcs-users] upcoming darcs 2.8.4: ghc 7.6 support

Benjamin Franksen benjamin.franksen at helmholtz-berlin.de
Tue Dec 18 12:58:03 UTC 2012


Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> It seems pressure is growing for darcs 2.8 to support GHC 7.6 - a few
> people have asked about it on IRC and at least one distro has patched
> things themselves.
> 
> I've pushed the patches to the 2.8 repo
> (http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.8/). The changes aren't entirely
> trivial, but I'm reasonably confident they work.
> 
> If no problems turn up I'll release this in the next few days.

I appreciate this, I use ghc-6.7.1, too, by default.

However: can I request that issue 2283 gets fixed either before this release 
is made or else in a following bug-fix release? I just created the entry in 
the bug tracker, this is a rather serious issue for us.

Cheers
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