On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:24:53AM +0200, Nicolas P. M. Legrand wrote: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Latest It's more complicated then that in the case of ghc. Kili can elaborate more on that though..
http://www.mail-archive.com/ports@openbsd.org/msg32063.html Bottom line is that the ghc teams breaks the ghc build system every full moon and there are some regressions in ghc-7 that need to be addressed first. > On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:47:45AM +0300, Lars Engblom wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Please, do not take me wrong, I am not demanding anything and I am > > humbly thankful for the work people are doing for free. > > > > I am just wondering if there is any reason GHC is not upgraded in > > the ports tree. The current stable version of GHC is 7.0.3 while the > > one in ports is 6.12.3. > > > > Normally I would not care much to bother about a port lagging behind > > in version but in this case an upgrade will give to developers the > > whole Haskell 2010 language. 6.12.3 is just supporting Haskell 98. > > Additionally programs like xmonad (also in ports) will benefit as > > 7.0.3 will give back to OS memory not needed anymore and having more > > performance. Those are also good thing. > > > > Regards, > > Lasse > > > -- Cheers, Jasper "Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture them."
