*Hey you....* yes you... Platform committee member, or Platform library maintainer, Platform packager... that's right, you:
GHC 7.10 is about to be released. Wouldn't it rock if we came out with a Platform within days? Or on the same day? I know, I know, our process is long and full of discussion, and hard, and slow.... let's smash that, eh? How'z'bout it? OKAY? Good! Your task is: - look over the the source file at GitHub <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/blob/pre-release/hptool/src/Releases2015.hs> that defines the release - see if the version of your stuff looks right - yeah, I bumped it all to latest, major or minor version change - so APIs probably broke from last HP - look near the end where there is a bunch of stuff I kinda just added to get it all to compile - read the notes about those things in the first message of this thread (copied below) - weigh in - short and sweet - if you have an opinion - if you have a spare Mac - download it and try it! <http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/> Crazy, right? I know... but, can we do this? — Mark On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've gone ahead and built a very provisional, alpha version of 2015.2.0.0 > using GHC 7.10 RC3. > > I bumped all the GHC libs to the versions in 7.10, and bumped all the > Platform libs to the latest versions I could find on Hackage. There were a > few issues: > > - *old-locale and old-time* - no longer part of GHC, but > cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform - > so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since > they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP > update, not sure what else to do. > - *tf-random* - is now required by alex and QuickCheck - seems a shame > to add this, as now we're going to have two random packages > - *network-uri *- was split out of network, and needed by > cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP. I suppose we should include it, as it was > functionality and API that was part of the platform > - *exceptions* & *multipart* - needed by cgi - is exceptions now > subsumed by something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to drop > cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile! > - *scientific* - needed by attoparsec - debated in detail last time > ... and we're still here! > > The Platform is significantly larger now: On OS X it has gone from 316M to > 499M! Most of this is due to new OpenGL libs which are now huge (went from > 98M to 239M!) GHC itself grew by 109M (to almost 1G), so that the whole > installed magilla is 1.5G! Even the compressed installer is now 250M! > > If you want to poke at it, the source is in the pre-release branch at > GitHub <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/pre-release>, > and the OS X builds are at my usual platform staging area: > > Index of /mark/platform <http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/> > > > Remember, it already includes GHC, so no need to download the GHC binary > for OS X that is there, too. > > I'll try to get a generic linux build up soonish... but my VM now runs out > of memory trying to build OpenGL - and adding more only makes my machine > thrash to death! > > - Mark > >
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