It seems that I am being served old pages by my web browser from the cache on my machine. By reloading the platform page, I suddenly am asked what system I do have, from weher I am referred to the 6.12 version of the platform, Doaitse On 22 mrt 2010, at 14:25, Don Stewart wrote:

doaitse:

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On the page:

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/

I am told that the platform includes ghc-6.10.4, but if I click there on the "Haskell:batteries included" link to get to the page:

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html

its states there that I get 6.12.1?

The beta of the 2010.2.0.0 release is now up, which is based on GHC 6.12.

The last stable Haskell Platform release is 2009.2.0.0, which used GHC 6.10.4. (And the windows installer currently up provides this version).

-- Don

Don Stewart writes:

The beta of the 2010.2.0.0 release is now up, which is based on GHC 6.12.

Hang on, you just announced 2010.1.0.0... have you suddenly released _another_ major version? :p -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

On 23 March 2010 16:57, Don Stewart wrote:

2010.1.0.0 is definited as a 'beta' for 2010.2

   http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/VersionNumbers

Oh, so you do the odd/even beta/stable release versioning in conjunction with the PVP? -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

jeremy:

On a related note,

I wanted to find out what version of parsec is included in the platform, but that version is not included on this page:

http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html

The package links just say 'parsec' and link to the lastest version on hackage.

The best way to find out is to look at the 'cabal spec' http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal

From which all truth derives.

Any thoughts on how to best present this? -- Don

ivan.miljenovic:

Don Stewart writes:

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The best way to find out is to look at the 'cabal spec'

http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal

Which, of course, mentions Haddock 2.7.2 in passing, to the confusion of all... ;-)

To the confusion of all, indeed!

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From which all truth derives.

Any thoughts on how to best present this?

A list of package names with links to the specific version on Hackage (and maybe a short description of what they are)?

Scripting time.