andrewcoppin:

Don Stewart wrote:

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We're pleased to announce the third release of the Haskell Platform: a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone.

The specification, along with installers (including Windows and Unix installers for a full Haskell environment) are available.

Download the Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.2:

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

Maybe I'm being dense... Is there somewhere which lists what's changed from the last release?

Oh, sorry, that will be in the web announcement tomorrow. Essentially, * GHC 6.10.4 * network upgraded to 2.2.1.4 * Improvements to the MacOSX installer * Improvements to crazy popular Windows installer * Significant improvements in Debian support for Haskell * Gentoo now has full support for the Haskell Platform

bugfact:

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

* Improvements to crazy popular Windows installer

Are you kidding or are indeed many Windows users playing with Haskell these days?

No, literally, http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/haskell-platform-progress-report/ From the first few minutes of the release, downloads of the various windows installer were running at many times the rate as that for other platforms (there had until now been no single Haskell package for Windows, after all). This surprised us. By the end of July 2009, 90 days later, there had been: * 114,790 downloads of the Windows installer (!!) * 2,790 installs of the generic unix source tarball (complementing the packages provided on each distro). On June 1, the Mac OSX package went live, complementing the MacPorts GHC version. * 1,300 installs of the Mac OSX package. Since that was published there have been another 13.9k downloads of the Windows installer -- Don

Don Stewart wrote:

andrewcoppin:

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Maybe I'm being dense... Is there somewhere which lists what's changed from the last release?

Oh, sorry, that will be in the web announcement tomorrow.

No problem. ;-) Given the Platform's aims, I think it would be a good idea to make it blindingly obvious how to find a complete changelog for every version of the platform yet released (plus a release date for each).

Essentially,

* GHC 6.10.4 * network upgraded to 2.2.1.4 * Improvements to the MacOSX installer * Improvements to crazy popular Windows installer * Significant improvements in Debian support for Haskell * Gentoo now has full support for the Haskell Platform

So... mostly just improvements to the installer then? ;-) (Oh, and new GHC - which AFAIK is mostly a bugfix update anyway...)