Getting ready for a GHC 8.8.2 port? (no rush yet)

[Gleb Popov]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:03 AM Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> While presently I'm using my own build of GHC 8.8.2 from git, and thus
> can wait indefinitely for a FreeBSD port of same, I should note that
> stackage nightly snapshots are based on GHC 8.8.2 as of 2020-01-24, and
> there will presumably be a GHC 8.8.2 LTS at some point in the not too
> distant future.
>
> So it may soonish be a good time to consider releasing a GHC 8.8 port.
>

I'm slowly working on this, however it requires updating bootstrap compiler
- I get a strange hang when building 8.8 using 8.4.3. And newer bootstrap
have their own problems, so I'm figuring them out.


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>     Viktor.
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