Thanks Gregory! That's very helpful. I'll update the HP release page, moving the 64 bit version down the page, and clearly labelling it.
-- Don On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Gregory Wright <gwri...@antiope.com> wrote: > On 3/7/11 1:41 PM, Don Stewart wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> Talking to Simon Marlow, he's suspicious that the 64 bit GHC for Mac >> isn't fully working yet. In particular, GHCi isn't working? >> >> Can someone confirm / deny GHC 7.0.2 64 bit Mac support is there? What >> is its state? >> >> If e.g. GHCi isn't workng, we better mark it as "experimental, try at >> your own risk" on the HP page >> >> http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/download-website/mac.html > > It mostly works. I've not had a ghc-7-branch build fail for at least a > couple > of months now (unless I broke it myself while working). For most purposes > ghci seems to work. In rare cases it crashes, and it will be less reliable > than on other platforms. > > The issue is this: until quite recently, ghci's runtime linker didn't work > at > all. The biggest problems are fixed, buts since I was doing a lot of work > late in the release cycle, I can't guarantee that everything is OK. > > I am trying to resolve all of the test failures on OS X 64 bit that affect > ghci exclusively. There are perhaps 6 to 10 of these. Some of them don't > happen all of the time, so they'll be hard to track down. The first > failures > I looked at, time002 and time004, turned out to be unrelated to ghci, > although > for some reason they only failed when run interactively. This story > is available in ticket #4970. My current effort is to resolve #5003. > > It might be wise to label the release as "experimental" since it's the > first for OS X 64 bit. But the best way to smoke out the remaining bugs > is to have more people try it. Maybe call it a "preview release" and ask > people to file bug reports on the trac. (In fact, if the ghci banner > included > this information users could be considered appropriately warned.) > > Greg > > -- > Gregory Wright > Antiope Associates LLC > 18 Clay Street > Fair Haven, New Jersey 07733 > USA > > +1 732 924-4549 [office] > +1 732 345-8378 [fax] > gwri...@antiope.com > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform
