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

Benjamin Franksen benjamin.franksen at helmholtz-berlin.de
Mon Jan 7 14:23:05 UTC 2013


Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
> On 16/12/2012 20:51, 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.
> 
> Unfortunately, a serious problem has turned up - luckily just *before* I
> did the release! http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2286
> 
> I'm investigating fixes at the moment, but I don't have an ETA yet.

Could you also pull the small Setup.lhs fix I made (Patch 897) onto the 2.8 
branch? I tried and there are no conflicts.

Cheers
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