Personally, I would love delaying announcements such as these until binaries are available, at least for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Richard On Nov 2, 2015, at 1:18 PM, George Colpitts wrote:

Will there be a Mac release candidate also?

Thanks George

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

We are pleased to announce the first (and hopefully only) release candidate for GHC 7.10.3:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc1/

This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64-bit and 32-bit modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later) and Windows. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x97DB64AD). As always, our content delivery network tends to be a bit slow on the uptake. If you see an empty directory at this URL just add a few superfluous slashes to the end; this is typically enough to fool it.

The 7.10.2 release was well-behaved save a couple notable bugs; while we have merged a good number of bug fixes in 7.10.3 they were were largely low risk and so we expect that this release should be similiarly stable.

The one exception to this is an upgrade of the Windows compiler toolchain to GCC 5.2. Windows users have been long suffering at the hand of our old toolchain (e.g. lack of response file support, #8596, and lack of SEH support) so we expect that this change should fix far more than breaks.

We plan to make the 7.10.3 release sometime next week.

Please test this as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release and this will ideally be the last release of the 7.10 series.

Happy testing,

- Ben

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2015-11-02 19:27 GMT+01:00 Joachim Breitner :

Isn’t such a mail a requirement for those wo build the various binaries to get active in the first place?

I think that would require at least an accessible source tarball in the first place :-) But apparently there are no files under the specified directory. Cheers, Gábor

Yeah, I really need to work a trigger into the downloads machine so that we can clear the CDN cache when we upload/update files... It's about a mile down my TODO list though (since it bites somewhat rarely for these cases) - so anyone who wants to do a little JSON API chatting with Fastly should talk to me. :) On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:

Páli Gábor János writes:

...

2015-11-02 19:27 GMT+01:00 Joachim Breitner :

...

Isn’t such a mail a requirement for those wo build the various binaries to get active in the first place?

I think that would require at least an accessible source tarball in the first place :-) But apparently there are no files under the specified directory.

It may appear that way but this is merely an unfortunate side-effect of our content delivery network. Try adding some extra `/` characters to the URL, e.g.,

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc1//

This is usually enough to fool the CDN info refreshing.

Cheers,

- Ben

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Yeah, so in the past Tier 1 platforms (OS X, Win, Lin, FreeBSD) are always available, but I rarely (if ever) held up RCs for anything besides that. I do have a list of people to alert, though... (Karel takes care of Solaris for example as time permits). Even then, I wasn't always the one doing the builds... Gabor takes care of FreeBSD for me. And Mark was doing the OS X builds before, because he had an excellent test farm that allowed him to test a release across an array of OS X versions. Right now we're working on getting a Mac. I'll have short-term access to one by tomorrow thankfully, and be getting a new machine soon. So hopefully this won't be a problem going forward, although some knowledge transfer from Mark might be in order. :) On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

Am Montag, den 02.11.2015, 13:21 -0500 schrieb Richard Eisenberg:

...

Personally, I would love delaying announcements such as these until binaries are available, at least for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

it’s a release candidate, announced on the developer mailing list. Isn’t such a mail a requirement for those wo build the various binaries to get active in the first place? Or is all done by Ben these days.

I’m happy to get the announcement as quickly as possible, as I was waiting for the source tarball :-)

Greetings, Joachim

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I will kick off a Mac build this evening or tomorrow. On Nov 3, 2015 6:28 AM, "Páli Gábor János" wrote:

2015-11-03 1:17 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp :

...

Yeah, so in the past Tier 1 platforms (OS X, Win, Lin, FreeBSD) are always available, but I rarely (if ever) held up RCs for anything besides that.

The FreeBSD bindists are available there:

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/ghc-7.10.2.20151030-i386-portbld-freebsd.tar....

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/ghc-7.10.2.20151030-i386-portbld-freebsd.tar....

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/ghc-7.10.2.20151030-x86_64-portbld-freebsd.ta...

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/ghc-7.10.2.20151030-x86_64-portbld-freebsd.ta...

along with their sha256 sums:

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/SHA256SUMS

and some notes on the installation:

http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/ghc/README.html

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I can't build 7.10.3 RC1 because I don't have readelf. ./configure says this:

checking for readelf... no configure: error: cannot find readelf in your PATH

A (very) quick search has turned up no help. I'm worried that my problem is that I'm still running Mac OS 10.8.5 (Snow Leopard? I never could keep track of all the animals... and now mountains.) I *really* don't want to upgrade, as I tried 10.9 once and it brought my system to its knees... had to reformat to downgrade back to 10.8. Help? Thanks! Richard On Nov 4, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Oleg Grenrus wrote:

Travis has whitelisted hvr/ppa ghc-7.10.3 package. Please update your travis build matrices!

Let’s make travis do its job!

Cheers, Oleg

...

On 02 Nov 2015, at 18:03, Ben Gamari wrote:

We are pleased to announce the first (and hopefully only) release candidate for GHC 7.10.3:

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc1/

This includes the source tarball and bindists for 64-bit and 32-bit modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later) and Windows. These binaries and tarballs have an accompanying SHA256SUMS file signed by my GPG key id (0x97DB64AD). As always, our content delivery network tends to be a bit slow on the uptake. If you see an empty directory at this URL just add a few superfluous slashes to the end; this is typically enough to fool it.

The 7.10.2 release was well-behaved save a couple notable bugs; while we have merged a good number of bug fixes in 7.10.3 they were were largely low risk and so we expect that this release should be similiarly stable.

The one exception to this is an upgrade of the Windows compiler toolchain to GCC 5.2. Windows users have been long suffering at the hand of our old toolchain (e.g. lack of response file support, #8596, and lack of SEH support) so we expect that this change should fix far more than breaks.

We plan to make the 7.10.3 release sometime next week.

Please test this as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release and this will ideally be the last release of the 7.10 series.

Happy testing,

- Ben _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

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