MOTU application for Alessio Treglia (quadrispro)

[Stefan Potyra]

Hi,

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 16:43:28 Alessio Treglia wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Stefan Potyra
>
> <stefan.potyra at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> > Hi Alessio,
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2009 00:34:51 Alessio Treglia wrote:
> > [..]
> >
> >> Regarding ghc6: I think Luca expressed clearly the situation and I
> >> think the debian changelog mention everything needed: it was only a
> >> merge.
> >
> > As this merge introduced the need for a smallish haskell transition,
> > would you like to coordinate/monitor that?
>
> Yes, I think it could be a very interesting experience for me!

Excellent, thanks a lot!

>
> > What do you think about bringing GHC6.10 (which just entered
> > experimental) to jaunty?
>
> I'm just doing some tests, the first thing I've noticed is that we
> need to sync haddock from debian experimental, because ghc6.10
> build-depends on it.
>
> I think there are some work/tests to do, but I don't see  any special
> problem for bringing new ghc6 release to Jaunty.

I assume that bringing in 6.10 would certainly be s.th. with what many haskell 
users might be very happy, as I've seen a number of complaints about old ghc6 
versions so far.

However upgrading to 6.10 is also means a lot of work: All haskell libraries 
will need to be transitioned (and eventually ported) and most probably the 
haskell toolchain needs to be fiddled with.

~1 month before FeatureFreeze, I'm not entirely sure if we'll have the 
resources to do so. I'm only sure that I personally won't find the time to 
work on this task.

Cheers,
     Stefan.
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