Features/GHC741

GHC 7.4

Summary

Update Fedora Haskell packages to the latest major version 7.4.1 of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

Owner

• Name: Jens Petersen
• Email: petersen at redhat.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 18
• Last updated: 2012-07-12
• Percentage of completion: 90%

Detailed Description

Bumping ghc version requires a complete rebuild of all Haskell packages against the new version.

Benefit to Fedora

GHC 7.4 is a major new version of the Haskell compiler with many improvements.

Scope

• Bootstrap ghc-7.4.1 in rawhide [done]
• Finalize ghc-rpm-macros for F18 [done]
• Refresh and rebuild all Haskell packages with appropriate version bumps [done]
• Build ghc-7.4 for secondary archs [done]
• update Haskell Platform to 2012.2.0.0 [done]
• Test packages in rawhide/f18 [done]
• Block old Haskell Platform packages: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/5238

How To Test

• yum install ghc
• yum install haskell-platform
• yum install @haskell
• yum install xmonad
• yum install ghc-*-devel
• yum install pandoc
• yum install gitit

User Experience

Fedora users will have the latest major version of GHC available to them.

Dependencies

• For ARM, llvm-3.1 needs to be patched for ghc: see bug

Contingency Plan

No major problems expected.

Documentation

• http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.1/html/users_guide/release-7-4-1.html
• http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html

Release Notes

The Haskell GHC compiler has been updated to version 7.4.1 with many new features and improvements. Haskell Platform has been updated to 2012.2.0.0.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/GHC74