Hi Simon,
Which version of the testsuite should I be using to test my
builds of the release candidates?
Best Wishes,
Greg
On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate
phase for GHC 6.6.
Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6
Download snapshots from here:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/
Right now we have the source bundles:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831-
src.tar.bz2
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831-src-
extralibs.tar.bz2
Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package
contains various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC
(and a couple of new ones) - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of
the source tree to add them, they will be included in the build
automatically.
There are also currently binary distributions for x86_64/Linux
(Fedora Core 5), i386/Linux (RedHat 7(!)), and Windows. More may
appear later.
Please test as much as possible, bugs are much cheaper if we find
them before the release!
Which brings me on to the release itself: we had planned to release
before ICFP, but that only leaves just over a week, which isn't
really enough time to test the RC thoroughly, so it's looking like
the 6.6 release will happen after ICFP now. In the meantime we
have the RC to play with, so enjoy...
Cheers,
Simon
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