Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?

To: Brian Sammon <debian-haskell@brisammon.fastmail.fm>
Cc: debian-haskell@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Which version of ghc will stretch have?
From: Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 23:23:48 +0000
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:32:05PM -0400, Brian Sammon wrote:
> So, my question is: Can I/someone reasonably predict which version of ghc will be in stretch?  I assume it'll be either 7.10 or 8.0.  I'm guessing it will be 8.0.  Can I be pretty confident in that guess, or is it too soon to tell?

There's still an annoying number of packages which are incompatible
with 8.0.  Unless things like
https://github.com/ekmett/recursion-schemes/issues/21 are addressed
in the next month or two, I fear we're going to be stuck with
7.10.

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