Installed on Mac, no problems. Did cabal install species, no problems. Great to have at the same time as GHC release!
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Haskellers, we are pleased to announce the release of > > Haskell Platform 7.10.2 > *get it here... <https://www.haskell.org/platform/>* > > Highlights include: > > - GHC 7.10.2 > - packages & tools bumped to very latest > - major package updates to: > - attoparsec > - case-insensitive > - cgi > - GLUT, GLURaw, OpenGL, & OpenGLRaw > - mtl > - network > - primitive & vector > - QuickCheck > - random > - syb > - text > - new website > - new installer script for linux > - 10 bugs closed: Issues ยท haskell/haskell-platform > > <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aclosed+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A7.10.2+> > > This is our first release concurrent with GHC's release. You'll notice > that the version number has changed to reflect that from now on, our aim is > to keep HP releases sync'd to GHC releases. > > *Note:* Haskell Platform download pages are often cached - you may need > to hit reload to see the release. > > *About the last minute update to text package:* > > *tl;dr: Vast majority of code will never notice the difference. Go ahead > and get the HP now and start enjoying 7.10.2 You can always update to the > point release when it comes out.* > > Despite all the testing, GHC central noticed just a day before release > that there was a regression with text literals in 7.10.2. It was possible > to work around the issue via a change to the text package, and text-1.2.1.3 > was released just today. Alas, there wasn't enough time to re-build and > test the platform installers between then and now, so this release has > text-1.2.1.1. There will be a point release (7.10.2.1) of the Platform this > weekend or next with the updated text package. > > The issue does not result in incorrect code, only slow compilation times > for very text literal laden code (as in thousands of literals), and > slightly higher one-time construction cost at run-time. In full stack > builds and many other test builds, these slow downs were inconsequential. > > > *Windows Notes:* > > The Haskell Platform on Windows now provides the MSys2 tools. These tools > are needed when installing packages that use conf-tools (generally rare). > These tools are not automatically placed onto the PATH in order avoid > troubles due to MSys2 tools which have the same name as a standard > Windows tool (e.g., echo, find, dir). > > > - Mark "release monad" Lentczner > > Special thanks to Erik Rantappa, Wasif Hasan Baig, & Ben Gamari for the > new web site. Randy Polen for Windows build wrangling. > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-platform mailing list > Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org > http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform >
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