nomeata:
Hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 14.07.2010, 15:41 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart:
Release candidate specification for the 2010.2.0.0 release of the Haskell Platform is now available, the first encorporating GHC 6.12.3:
http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal
RC for the Unix installer is here:
http://www.galois.com/~dons/tmp/hp/haskell-platform-2010.2.0.0.tar.gz
Time to get the Mac and Windows installers ready, and to prep the distro packages!!
Release due next Thursday.
this leads us to the question: What do we want in squeeze? Are we happy with the current situation? Or should we try to get 6.12.3 and 2010.2. ready?
I think the GHC 6.12.3 compiler fixes a number of significant bugs of 6.12.1, so that alone is worth the upgrade: * A crash when Haskell calls C, which in turn calls back into Haskell, has been fixed. * A bug which caused forking large processes to not terminate has been fixed. * Calling hSetEncoding will now set the encoding for both the read and write side of a Handle, rather than just the read side. * Using hReady and hWaitForInput on Handles created from Sockets will no longer block on Windows. * Some improvements have been made in when library functions do, and do not, block asynchronous exceptions. * bytestring: Fixed bug that caused hGetContents to block when it shouldn't. * A new flag -no-rtsopts flag allows you to disable parsing of +RTS ... options by the run-time system. In some use-cases, when a program can be run as another user, this can cause security problems. For example, myprog -tsomefile will overwrite somefile if the other user has permissions to do so. * ghc-pkg now ensures that the conf files it writes are UTF8. * TH: A bug in the kind parser has been fixed. * directory: System.Directory.doesFileExist on Unix-like OSes now correctly identifies various types of special file as files. -- Don