Hi Platform team, Congratulations! Thank you for great effort :)
Regards, Takenobu 2016-05-28 4:14 GMT+09:00 Gershom B <gersh...@gmail.com>: > On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release > of > > Haskell Platform 8.0.1 > > Now available at > > https://www.haskell.org/platform/ > > This platform includes features initially planned in the "Improving > the 'Get Haskell Experience'" proposal of June 2015. [1] > > * Minimal as well as Full distributions. The minimal distribution > only includes GHC core libraries as well as additional tools. This is > now the recommended distribution. The Full distribution remains an > option for those who want a one-step installer with the broader set of > platform libraries preinstalled. > > * Inclusion of the Stack tool for developing Haskell projects [2] > > Other highlights of this release include the following > > * The new cabal 1.24 including the great "new-build" tech preview > of nix-like build dependency management [3] > > * On windows, a cabal/msys setup that allows packages such as > "network" to build "out of the box". (almost*) > > * At long last, prebuilt Linux 32 bit platform installers > > Changes to Contents: > > * Some packages have been removed from the installed packages set > (both minimal and full) including old-locale, old-time, cgi, and the > transitive cgi dependencies: transformers-compat, multipart, and > exceptions. > > * fixed has been added to the platform as a transitive dependency of > GLUT. > > A full list of contents is available at > https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html > > Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the > package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC > team for putting together such an exciting new compiler release! > > A fuller list of new GHC changes is available at: > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-May/012098.html > > A fuller list of new cabal changes is available at: > http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2016-05-04-Cabal-1-24.html > > Happy Haskell Hacking all, > Gershom > > [1] > http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2015-July/003129.html > [2] http://haskellstack.org > [3] > http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-nix-style-local-builds/ > > * To build "network" and other msys-dependent packages on windows, you > will need to augment your cabal config file with the following lines: > > extra-prog-path: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\msys\usr\bin > extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\lib > extra-include-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\include > _______________________________________________ > Haskell mailing list > Haskell@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell >
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