Features/GHC704

GHC 7.0

Summary

Package version 7.0 of the Glasgow Haskell Compilation system. It is based on LLVM 2.7 and offers a substantial set of features over the GHC 6.x releases.

Owner

• Name: Ben Boeckel
• Email: mathstuf@gmail.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 15
• Last updated: 11 Sep 2010
• Percentage completion 0%

Scope

• Small impact outside of the Haskell parts of Fedora
• Need to rebuild all Haskell packages (scripts, to be developed, can help automate this)

How to Test

• Packagers
  • Build packages against GHC 7.0
  • Many Haskell libraries and applications include test suites already (not many are enabled to my knowledge). Enabling these will help catch errors.
• Testers
  • General usage of packaged Haskell applications to find bugs (probably manifest as assertion errors or exceptions)
    • darcs
    • cabal

User Experience

Developers will be able to use GHC 7.0.

Dependencies

• Haskell packages (to be handled by the Haskell SIG for the most part)

Contigency Plan

• None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/GHC70