Hi Simon, Which version of the testsuite should I be using to test my builds of the release candidates? Best Wishes, Greg On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6.
Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6
Download snapshots from here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/
Right now we have the source bundles:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831- src.tar.bz2 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831-src- extralibs.tar.bz2
Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC (and a couple of new ones) - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, they will be included in the build automatically.
There are also currently binary distributions for x86_64/Linux (Fedora Core 5), i386/Linux (RedHat 7(!)), and Windows. More may appear later.
Please test as much as possible, bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release!
Which brings me on to the release itself: we had planned to release before ICFP, but that only leaves just over a week, which isn't really enough time to test the RC thoroughly, so it's looking like the 6.6 release will happen after ICFP now. In the meantime we have the RC to play with, so enjoy...
Cheers, Simon
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