Hi, It is a few days after the release. But why the darcs repos of 6.10 is still changing? Ian Lynagh wrote:
============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1 ==============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, including:
* Some new language features have been implemented: * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation * Generalised quasi-quotes * Generalised list comprehensions * View patterns
* Type families have been completely re-implemented
* Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions
* Parallel garbage collection
* Base provides extensible exceptions
* The GHC API is easier to use
* External core (output only) now works again
* Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC
The full release notes are here:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html
How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
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Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later.
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