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Since the last release of ghc-heap-view, which was compatible with GHC-7.6, I got 8 requests for a GHC-7.8 compatible version. I started working on it in January, but got stuck and then kept putting it off.

Today, I got the ninths request, and I did not want to wait for the tenth, so I finally finished the work and you can use the new ghc-heap-view-0.5.2 with GHC-7.8.

I used this chance to migrate its source repository from Darcs to git, so maybe this means that when 7.10 comes out, the requests to update it come with working patches :-). I also added a small test script so that travis can check it:

I did not test it very thoroughly yet. In particular, I did not test whether ghc-vis works as expected.

I still think that the low-level interface that ghc-heap-view creates using custom Cmm code should move into GHC itself, so that it does not break that easily, but I still did not get around to propose a patch for that.