Thank you Austin! I unpacked the Windows 64bit distribution and tried to update cabal as instructed, but got this: Registering zlib-0.5.4.1... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: HTTP-4000.2.12 depends on network 2.4.2.2 which failed to install. network-2.4.2.2 failed during the configure step.
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Austin Seipp <aus...@well-typed.com> wrote: > ============================================================== > The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1 > ============================================================== > > The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There > have been a number of significant changes since the last major release, > including: > > * New type-system features > * Closed type families > * Role checking > * An improved solver for type naturals > * Better support for cross compilation > * Full iOS support > * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager > * Dynamic linking for GHCi > * Several language improvements > * Pattern synonyms > * Overloaded list syntax > * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class > * A new parallel --make mode > * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support > * A brand-new low level code generator > * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements. > > The full release notes are here: > > http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.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://ghc.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://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC > > 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://ghc.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://ghc.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 > > Hashes & Signatures > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Included in this email is a signed copy of the SHA256 hashes for the > tarballs, using my GPG key (keyid 0x3B58D86F). > > -- > Regards, > > Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant > Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
