Just a short note from my side: I've tested both the branch (not the .tar.bz2) on x86 Linux and the .msi on Win2k. Both seem to work fine... Cheers, S.

Thanks, Sigbjorn, since I was among those who asked for more frequent windows binaries, I thought I should have a go at this (on windows 98). I found two problems so far (both not new), but otherwise it looks okay. Perhaps there ought to be a list of projects that should succeed in minimal tests before releases (such as wxWidgets, HOpenGL,..)? Cheers, Claus 1) installer (why is that so huge, btw? and does all of this change from one ghc version to the next, or could some parts be split up?) The installer registers .hs as HaskellFile, with ghci as default open. This is non-optimal for several reasons: - I much prefer to open my source files with an editor, instead of an interpreter, so I like to have an editor as the default, and several haskell implementations on my right-click menu for .hs-files - registering ghci as default overwrites previous defaults (e.g., hugs), and neither hugs nor ghci appear elsewhere in the right-click menu - on windows 98, at least, all this is done in a way that prevents HaskellFile from appearing in the normal filetypes dialog, so I can't change the association there. even if I use the old shift+right-click trick, to get an "open with.." dialog (I then select an editor and tick "always use this program to open this file type"), the modified default appears in the registry, but .hs-files are still opened with ghci... 2) System.system (I thought I had reported this, but apparently not) On windows 98, System.system always returns ExitSuccess, which is rather useless, not to say misleading: ___ ___ _ / _ \ /\ /\/ __(_) / /_\// /_/ / / | | GHC Interactive, version 6.2.1, for Haskell 98. / /_\\/ __ / /___| | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ \____/\/ /_/\____/|_| Type :? for help. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> System.system "oops" >>= print Befehl oder Dateiname nicht gefunden. ExitSuccess If it cannot return a proper exit-status, it should probably not return ExitSuccess, because anyone inspecting the exit-status will be fooled. 3) build test (just to end on a positive note;-) RC6.2.1 appears to build HaRe 26/02/2004 without problems (due to the System.system problem, I cannot run our testsuite, but the result looks okay..) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sigbjorn Finne" To: "GHC users" Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 2:32 AM Subject: Re: Release Candidate for 6.2.1 available

An installer for Windows users can now also be found in that directory.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Marlow" To: Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 04:43 Subject: RE: Release Candidate for 6.2.1 available

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ghc-6.2.20040304 and later are release candidates for 6.2.1

Get them from here:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/

This is your last chance to test... I'm going to freeze the release on Monday (15 March).

Cheers, Simon

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