On 06/02/12 06:18, Vesa Kaihlavirta wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This was mainly directed to the Arch Devs on the list, and especially >> Vesa since he's putting in most of the work on GHC as found in >> [extra]. >> >> We've already discussed the question of whether we should keep HP in >> Arch. *I* think there was clear what the favoured route ahead was, >> but in the end it's the Arch Devs who decide. I don't like the >> current situation (outdated GHC and outdated HP), so a decision would >> be much welcome then the work on catching up can begin. > > Yeah, I noticed 7.4.1's release just now. > > The question of HP and Arch was left in a limbo the last time, I feel. > The reason I started pondering about dropping HP earlier was that > there seemed to be no progress on it with regards to 7.2. Then it was > pointed out that 7.2 was sort of an unstable upstream release, so that > was the reason for HP not going with it. > > So now I'm not so certain anymore about dropping it. We could again > wait for a while until HP catches up (it should be relatively fast > this time, since 7.4 is supposedly a real stable release) or just drop > it and go to 7.4.1 asap (and probably face some breakage). What do you > people think? > Drop HP.
