ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.10.2
============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.2 ============================================================== The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 6.10.1, including some performance fixes, so we recommend upgrading. Release notes are here: http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.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; the current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and revised December 2002. 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
April fools? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:
============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.2 ==============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 6.10.1, including some performance fixes, so we recommend upgrading.
Release notes are here:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.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; the current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and revised December 2002.
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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Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been intentionally excluded from 6.10.2? On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:
============================================================== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.2 ==============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC. This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 6.10.1, including some performance fixes, so we recommend upgrading.
Release notes are here:
http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky <lists@qseep.net> wrote:
Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?
Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now. Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky <lists@qseep.net> wrote:
Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?
Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed:
Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's autotools stuff or break the GHC build.
Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now. Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed?
The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we get enough volunteers to do the platform release!) In the mean time you can just: $ cabal install time Duncan
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:42:50 +0100, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:47 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:48:13 -0700, Lyle Kopnicky <lists@qseep.net> wrote:
Great! But what happened to the time package? It was in 6.10.1. Has it been intentionally excluded from 6.10.2?
Yes, the maintainer of the time package asked for it to be removed:
Can I remove the time package from the GHC build process? I want to update it but I don't want to deal with GHC's autotools stuff or break the GHC build.
Then I should probably hold off on installing the new version for now. Any estimate on when this problem will be fixed?
The time package will be part of the first platform release (assuming we get enough volunteers to do the platform release!)
In the mean time you can just:
$ cabal install time
Okay; no problem. I just read through the Release notes for version 6.10.2 (see http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.2/html/users_guide/release-6-10-2.html), however, and noticed that the removal of the time package hadn't been documented there. Perhaps this information should be included? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^
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