============================================================= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 ============================================================= The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1. Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4: * Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and supported features. * Windows 64bit is now a supported platform. * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the -fdefer-type-errors flag. * The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities. Full release notes are here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place. Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later. Background ~~~~~~~~~~ Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language. GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license. A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below). On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building Developers ~~~~~~~~~~ We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
Woho! I love new GHC releases. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> wrote:
Full release notes are here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html
1. There are a bunch of TODOs in the release notes. :) 2. Could you please push all the packages that were released in GHC 7.6.1 to Hackage as well? -- Johan
On 7 September 2012 02:05, Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> wrote:
============================================================= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 =============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.
Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4:
* Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and supported features.
* Windows 64bit is now a supported platform.
* It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the -fdefer-type-errors flag.
Is this flag reversible in ghci, so I can :set it to check what's going wrong with some code and then :unset it again?
* The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities.
Full release notes are here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.html
How to get it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
We supply binary builds in the native package format for many platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same place.
Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your system isn't available yet, please try again later.
Background ~~~~~~~~~~
Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a BSD-style open source license.
A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, contact information, links to research groups) are available from the Haskell home page (see below).
On-line GHC-related resources ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ GHC developers' home page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
Supported Platforms ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them, is here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a new platform:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
Developers ~~~~~~~~~~
We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Mailing lists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on reporting bugs can be found here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug
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On 6 September 2012 18:05, Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> wrote:
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.
Great!
* It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the -fdefer-type-errors flag.
In section 7.13.1 it says: ...given the following code: x :: Int x = 0 y :: Char y = x z :: Int z = y evaluating x will result in a runtime type error. Shouldn't this be: evaluating z will result in a runtime type error. Cheers, Bas
============================================================= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 =============================================================
GHC 7.6.1 is available now on all platforms (el5, el6, fc16, fc17) at http://justhub.org/download. Chris
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