[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1 is now available

2023-10-09 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the final release of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1 GHC 9.8 brings a number of new features and

Migrating GHC's real-time communications to Matrix? (#24010)

2023-10-02 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, GHC's user and contributor documentation currently directs users to #ghc on irc.libera.chat for discussion of GHC development. However, for a variety of reasons the center-of-mass of discussion has been gradually shifting towards Matrix (#GHC:matrix.org). Given that Matrix appears to

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-rc1 is now available

2023-09-29 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the release candidate of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-rc1 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and

Re: GHC 9.8.1-rc1 delayed

2023-09-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hi all, > > Due to a rather late-breaking boot library mix-up I will need to delay > the 9.8.1 release candidate by at least two days. I will provide a more > specific timeline tomorrow when there is more clarity on what needs to > happen to resolve the s

GHC 9.8.1-rc1 delayed

2023-09-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, Due to a rather late-breaking boot library mix-up I will need to delay the 9.8.1 release candidate by at least two days. I will provide a more specific timeline tomorrow when there is more clarity on what needs to happen to resolve the situation. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha4 is now available

2023-09-22 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > It seems unlikely that the current tests wouldn't find this bug. Is it the > case that the tests are never run on aarch64-darwin Macs? > The tests are certainly run; see, for instance, the 9.8.1-alpha4 release pipeline [1]. The problem is that #21570 requires very

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha4 is now available

2023-09-19 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha4 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features and

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha3 is now available

2023-08-23 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha3 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2023-08-23 Thread Ben Gamari
Arnaud Spiwack writes: >  > Thanks Sam and Noon! I'm obviously great at copy-pasting. > Regardless, thanks for bringing the mistake to my attention. It will be fixed with the next alpha. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2023-08-10 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the second alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha2 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.6 is now available

2023-08-07 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.6. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.6 This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing some issues found in 9.4.6. These include: *

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.8.1-alpha1 is now available

2023-07-28 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha prerelease of GHC 9.8.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.8.1-alpha1 GHC 9.8 will bring a number of new features

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.2 is now available

2023-05-23 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.2. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.2 This release is primarily a bug-fix release addressing a few issues found in 9.6.2. These

Re: Installing GHC on my MacBook Air

2023-03-15 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi Bill > > I'm cc'ing GHC dev and GHC users as someone else may have a better answer, > catch a mistake I made etc. Please don't delete them. > > I believe you have encountered > https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21506#note_447206 > > I believe the way to fix

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1 is now available

2023-03-11 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.1. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1/ Beginning with GHC 9.6.1, GHC can be built as a cross-compiler to WebAssembly and JavaScript.

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-rc1 is now available

2023-03-03 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first (and likely final) release candidate of GHC 9.6.1. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at [downloads.haskell.org](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1-rc1/). Beginning with GHC 9.6.1, GHC can be built

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha3 is now available

2023-02-15 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi > > I get a strange warning on MacOS when I do ./configure: > > checking Xcode version... xcode-select: error: tool 'xcodebuild' requires > Xcode, but active developer directory '/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools' > is a command line tools instance > not found (too

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha3 is now available

2023-02-14 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.1-alpha3. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1-alpha3/ Beginning with GHC 9.6.1, GHC can be built as a cross-compiler to WebAssembly

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha2 is now available

2023-01-30 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.1-alpha2. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1-alpha2/ Beginning with GHC 9.6.1, GHC can be built as a cross-compiler to WebAssembly and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha1 is now available

2023-01-16 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi > > I believe llvm does not work in this alpha as 21936 is still open. Is that > correct? > Indeed we do not yet support LLVM 15 but all previous LLVM versions continue to work. We can try to fix this for the final release. > I also believe that when it does work

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.6.1-alpha1 is now available

2023-01-13 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.6.1-alpha1. As usual, binaries and source distributions are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.6.1-alpha1/ This is the first alpha release in the 9.6 series which will bring a number of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.4 is now available

2022-12-24 Thread Ben Gamari
David Feuer writes: > Does this release include the fix for #22549 (infinite loops for some > undecidable instances)? > Yes, it includes a backport of !9485. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.4 is now available

2022-12-24 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.4. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org [1]. This release is primarily a bugfix release. Bugs fixed include: * An issue where the wrong labels were used in the

GitLab maintenance today

2022-11-07 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, Today we will be doing some maintenance on gitlab.haskell.org to address #22418. I can't yet say precisely when the outage will begin but I do expect there to be one. I will try to provide at least 30 minutes notice. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.3 is now available

2022-11-03 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.3. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.3 This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing a few issues found in

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.2 is now available

2022-08-22 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.2. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.2 This release is primarily a bugfix release addressing a few packaging issues

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1 is now available

2022-08-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of GHC > 9.4.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are > available at downloads.haskell.org: > > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1 > Hi all, Due to an unf

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1 is now available

2022-08-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Bruno Damour writes: > Hello, > Thanks for this new release ! > Do you plan to add FreeBSD binaries ? Yes, I have recently been working on the FreeBSD CI infrastructure [1] and hope to have this finished in time for 9.4.2. Cheers, - Ben [1]

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1 is now available

2022-08-07 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.4.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1 This release includes: - A new profiling mode, `-fprof-late`, which

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

2022-07-24 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > +Kazu Yamamoto > > Hi Ben > > My 2 machines also have: > > $ spctl --status > assessments enabled > Hmm, interesting. Then I am truly perplexed. > Speculations: > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

2022-07-23 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi Ben > > /ust/bin/xattr exists on my machine. Running "xattr -rc ." manually does > not fix the bug as noted at the start of 21506. It was sufficient in the > past but no longer fixes this error. As noted farther down in 21506 > > the workaround given in #17418 no

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

2022-07-22 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi Ben, > > I expected https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/21506 (ghc-9.4.1-alpha1 > does not install on macos: ghc-pkg-9.4.0-20220501 cannot be opened because > the developer cannot be verified) to be fixed in rc1 but it is not. Are my > expectations wrong?

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available

2022-07-22 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of the first (and likely last) release candidate of GHC 9.4.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org]. This major release will include: - A new profiling mode,

GHC 9.4.1-alpha3 now available

2022-06-24 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of the third alpha release of the GHC 9.4 series. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at [downloads.haskell.org](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1-alpha3). This major release will include:

Re: Two-factor authentication enforced on gitlab.haskell.org

2022-06-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hi all, > > Due to a recent up-tick in spam activity, we have started enforcing > two-factor authentication on gitlab.haskell.org. We hope that this isn't > too much of a burden, but do let us know if so and we can evaluate other > options. > Hi all, Du

Two-factor authentication enforced on gitlab.haskell.org

2022-06-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, Due to a recent up-tick in spam activity, we have started enforcing two-factor authentication on gitlab.haskell.org. We hope that this isn't too much of a burden, but do let us know if so and we can evaluate other options. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

GHC.X.Hackage and GHC's release cycle

2022-05-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, Recently in the Haskell Foundation's stability working group we have been discussing various practical issues that Haskell users and prospective adopters encounter around the ecosystem. During these discussions the topic of GHC's release schedule and the ecosystem's process migration

GHC 9.4.1-alpha2 now available

2022-05-24 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of the second alpha release of the GHC 9.4 series. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1-alpha2 This major release will include:

GHC 9.4.1-alpha1 now available

2022-05-01 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release of the GHC 9.4 series. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.4.1-alpha1 This major release will include:

Re: Haskell.org outage

2022-04-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hello everyone, > > Unfortunately Haskell.org, downloads.haskell.org, and hoogle.haskell.org > are currently down. We are currently investigating the cause. Updates > will be posted as they are available. > A quick update: It sounds as though the outage is

Haskell.org outage

2022-04-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, Unfortunately Haskell.org, downloads.haskell.org, and hoogle.haskell.org are currently down. We are currently investigating the cause. Updates will be posted as they are available. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.2 is now available

2022-03-06 Thread Ben Gamari
Naturally, the subject line here should have read GHC 9.2.2 is *now* available Apologies for the confusion. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.2 is not available

2022-03-06 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC developers are very happy to at announce the availability of GHC 9.2.2. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at downloads.haskell.org: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.2 This release includes many bug-fixes and other

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.1 now available

2021-10-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, The GHC developers are very happy to at long last announce the availability of GHC 9.2.1. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.1 GHC 9.2 brings a number of exciting features including: * A native code

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.1-rc1 now available

2021-08-22 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, The GHC developers are very happy to announce the availability of the release cadidate of the 9.2.1 release. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.1-rc1 GHC 9.2 will bring a number of exciting features

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.2.1-alpha2 released

2021-04-22 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi all, The GHC developers are very happy to announce the availability of the second alpha release in the 9.2.1 series. Binary distributions, source distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.2.1-alpha2 GHC 9.2 will bring a number of exciting

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.10.4 released

2021-02-06 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.4. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.4/ This is a small bug-fix release, fixing two bugs present in 8.10.3: * Fix a linker hang triggered by dynamic

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.1 released

2021-02-04 Thread Ben Gamari
The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of GHC 9.0.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1/ In addition to numerous bug fixes, GHC 9.0.1 will bring a number of new features: * A first cut of the new

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-rc1 released

2020-12-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of GHC 9.0.1 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-rc1/ This release candidate comes quite a bit later than

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.3 released

2020-12-20 Thread Ben Gamari
Shayne Fletcher writes: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 7:23 PM Ben Gamari wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> The GHC team is happy to announce the release of GHC 8.10.3. Source >> and binary distributions are available at the usual place: >> >> https://down

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.3 released

2020-12-19 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the release of GHC 8.10.3. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.3/ GHC 8.10.3 fixes a number of issues in present in GHC 8.10.2 including: * Numerous stability improves on

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-alpha1 released

2020-11-23 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Hi Ben, > > What are the current plans / schedule for 9.0.1? > Hi George, At the moment things are blocked on a solution to #17760, which I am currently in the process of working through. There have been several false-starts on this ticket and while the solution we are

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 9.0.1-alpha1 released

2020-09-28 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is very pleased to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 9.0 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.1-alpha1/ This first alpha comes quite a bit later than expected.

Haskell Implementors' Workshop lightning talks

2020-08-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The Haskell Implementors' Workshop will be held this Friday, August 28th, colocated with virtual ICFP. As usual, we will have a number of slots for lightning-talks. These are five-minute-long talks where you can present libraries, language extension ideas, plugins, tools...

Re: What does freezing an array really do?

2020-08-20 Thread Ben Gamari
On August 20, 2020 7:08:06 PM EDT, David Feuer wrote: >So I guess this is to avoid having to check the closure type on each >mutation to see if the array needs to be added to the mutable list? > Correct. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.2 released

2020-08-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the release of GHC 8.10.2. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.2/ GHC 8.10.2 fixes a number of issues in present in GHC 8.10.1 including: * Fixes a bug in process creation on

GHC formally discontinuing 32-bit Windows support?

2020-07-15 Thread Ben Gamari
tl;dr. Unless someone speaks up, GHC will formally discontinue its (currently-broken) support for 32-bit Windows in 8.12. Hi everyone, As some have noticed, recent GHC releases' support for 32-bit Windows support can be generously described as "unreliable". This has been due to a

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.4 is now available

2020-07-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.4. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.4 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of issues affecting

Re: Decorating exceptions with backtrace information

2020-05-11 Thread Ben Gamari
Michael Sloan writes: > Thanks so much for making a proposal for this, Ben!! It's great to see > progress here. > > I'm also glad that there is now a proposal process. I made a fairly > similar proposal almost exactly 5 years ago to the libraries list - >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Decorating exceptions with backtrace information

2020-05-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Henning Thielemann writes: > On Fri, 8 May 2020, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > >> On 5/8/20 7:32 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote: >> >>> Can someone please give me examples where current state lacks >> >> * Currently stack traces are not printed, so users cannot forward them >> to the developer, even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Decorating exceptions with backtrace information

2020-05-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Henning Thielemann writes: > On Fri, 8 May 2020, Niklas Hambüchen wrote: > >> On 5/8/20 5:37 PM, Henning Thielemann wrote: >> >>> a callstack is not useful for a user. >> >> Call stacks have been very useful to me as a user of non-Haskell tools >> so far, because they are excellent for

Decorating exceptions with backtrace information

2020-05-07 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi everyone, After a nice discussion on IRC about the unfortunate state of error reporting in Haskell, I felt compelled to write down some long-lingering thoughts regarding backtraces on exceptions. The result is GHC proposal #330 [1]. I think the approach is viable and perhaps even

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1 released

2020-03-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hello all, > > The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.1. Source > and binary distributions are available at the usual place: > > https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1/ Note that the release notes can be found

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1 released

2020-03-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1/ GHC 8.10.1 brings a number of new features including: * The new UnliftedNewtypes extension allowing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Jens Petersen writes: > Thank you for the release. > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 02:02, Ben Gamari wrote: > >> [1] >> https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.3/docs/html/users_guide/8.8.3-notes.html >> > > I am getting 404 from the docs. Hmm, this appears t

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Ben Gamari writes: > >> --text follows this line-- >> <#part sign=pgpmime> >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.3. The source >> distribution, binary distributio

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > --text follows this line-- > <#part sign=pgpmime> > > Hello everyone, > > The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.3. The source > distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at > > https:/

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.3 is now available

2020-02-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.3. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.3 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of issues affecting

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-rc1 released

2020-01-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of GHC 8.10.1. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-rc1/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: * The new

Re: GHC 8.8.2 Bootstrap Build Fails on macOS Catalina 10.15, undeclared identifier 'TAG_MASK'

2020-01-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Steven Smith writes: > I’m trying to upgrade the MacPorts ghc install to the latest 8.8.2. > > The build fails with: >> error: use of undeclared identifier 'TAG_MASK' >> :info:build return (StgWord)p & TAG_MASK; > > > This is an error observed with previous ghc versions and on other >

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2 is now available

2020-01-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of issues affecting

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available

2020-01-02 Thread Ben Gamari
On January 1, 2020 9:54:53 PM EST, Jens Petersen wrote: >On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 04:11, Ben Gamari wrote: > >> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1 >> > >Thanks! > >I finally got round to doing some Fedora test ><https://koji.fedoraproject.org/k

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.2-rc1 is now available

2019-12-12 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of GHC 8.8.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.2-rc1 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-alpha2 released

2019-12-11 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 8.10 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha2/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: *

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.10.1-alpha1 released

2019-11-24 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello all, The GHC team is happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release in the GHC 8.10 series. Source and binary distributions are available at the usual place: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.10.1-alpha1/ GHC 8.10.1 will bring a number of new features including: *

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 is now available

2019-08-26 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1 This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1 release candidate 1 is now available

2019-07-22 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the release candidate for GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/8.8.1-rc1 This release is the culmination of over 3000 commits by over one hundred

The future of the SPARC NCG backend

2019-06-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, If you use (or think you might use in the future) GHC's SPARC NCG backend please do leave a note on #16882 [1]. My impression is that it has no users and no plausible means of testing. Consequently I am suggesting that we remove it in GHC 8.12. Cheers, - Ben [1]

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2019-06-22 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Will 8.8.1 use llvm 7.0.1? I don't see it mentioned in the release notes. > Yes, this release will target LLVM 7. I'll add a mention to the release notes. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2019-06-17 Thread Ben Gamari
:24:16 AM EDT, Matthew Pickering wrote: >There seems to be no debian8 bindist which is different from every >release at least back to ghc-8.0.1. > >On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 8:36 PM Ben Gamari wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> The GHC team is pleased to annou

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha2 is now available

2019-06-15 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the second and likely last alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha2 A draft of the release notes is also available [1].

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.8.1-alpha1 is now available

2019-04-25 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of GHC 8.8.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.8.1-alpha1 A draft of the release notes is also available [1]. This release is

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5 is now available

2019-04-23 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the release of GHC 8.6.5. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5 Release notes are also available [1]. This release fixes a handful of issues with 8.6.4:

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.5-rc1 is now available

2019-04-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is proud to announce the first release candidate of 8.6.5. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.5-rc1 This release fixes a handful of issues with 8.6.4: - Binary distributions

GHC HEAD documentation once again available

2019-03-30 Thread Ben Gamari
TL;DR. A snapshot of GHC's documentation from the master branch can always be found at [2]. Hi everyone, Quite a while ago I made it a habit of periodically pushing documentation snapshots from GHC's master branch to downloads.haskell.org [1]. Unfortunately, despite some attempts at

GitLab updates

2019-03-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi everyone, I want to share a few developments on the GitLab migration front: * URLs pointing to tickets or the Wiki which were previously served by Trac (https://ghc.haskell.org/) now redirect to their corresponding GitLab URL. Wiki page names are redirected via this mapping [1]. If

Re: Trac to GitLab migration underway

2019-03-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hello everyone, > > I have started the process of migrating GHC's Trac content to GitLab. > GitLab (gitlab.haskell.org) and Trac (ghc.haskell.org) will be down > until this process has finished. I will post updates as necessary. > Hi everyone, I'm

Trac to GitLab migration underway

2019-03-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, I have started the process of migrating GHC's Trac content to GitLab. GitLab (gitlab.haskell.org) and Trac (ghc.haskell.org) will be down until this process has finished. I will post updates as necessary. However, if you do need to refer to a ticket, you are welcome to use the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

2019-03-06 Thread Ben Gamari
uity's sake. Thoughts? Cheers, - Ben >Best, >_ara > >> On 6 Mar 2019, at 01:21, Ben Gamari wrote: >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> Over the past few weeks we have been hard at work sorting out the >> last batch of issues in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab import [1

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

2019-03-06 Thread Ben Gamari
On March 6, 2019 1:32:44 AM EST, "Ömer Sinan Ağacan" wrote: >This look great, thanks to everyone involved! > >Some feedback: > >- When I click to the "Wiki" link on the left it opens "Home" page and >I don't >know how to go to the index from there. I think we may want index to be >the > home

Final steps in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab migration

2019-03-05 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi everyone, Over the past few weeks we have been hard at work sorting out the last batch of issues in GHC's Trac-to-GitLab import [1]. At this point I believe we have sorted out the issues which are necessary to perform the final migration: * We are missing only two tickets (#1436 and #2074

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.4 is now available

2019-03-05 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.4, a bugfix release in the GHC 8.6 series. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.4 The 8.6.4 release fixes

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.3 is now available

2018-12-07 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.3, a bugfix release in the GHC 8.6 series. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.3 The 8.6 release fixes

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.2 is now available

2018-11-05 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is very happy to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.2, a bugfix release to GHC 8.6.1. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.2 The 8.6 release fixes several

Help inform GHC's development priorities

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Gamari
tl;dr. Please a take a minute to express your thoughts on GHC's development priorities via this survey [1]. Hello everyone, The GHC developers want to ensure that we are working on problems that of most importance to you, the Haskell community. To this end we are surveying the community

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

2018-10-18 Thread Ben Gamari
Jens Petersen writes: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 07:17, Ben Gamari wrote: >> The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.4 > > Thank you > >> As always, the full release notes can be found in the users guide, > > https://downloads.haskell.org/~g

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.4 released

2018-10-14 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.4, a patch-level release in the 8.4 series. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.4 This release fixes several

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

2018-09-24 Thread Ben Gamari
On September 24, 2018 2:09:13 AM CDT, Jens Petersen wrote: >I have built 8.6.1 for Fedora 27, 28, 29, Rawhide, and EPEL7 in: > >https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-8.6.1/ > >The repo also includes latest cabal-install. > Thanks Jens! This is a very helpful service. Cheers,

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1 released

2018-09-21 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.6.1, the fourth major release in the GHC 8 series. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1 The 8.6 release fixes

Re: Unable to compile ghc-8.2.2 with ghc-8.4.3

2018-08-31 Thread Ben Gamari
Sam Halliday writes: > Hi Ben, > > This would definitely help. I could use a docker image of a really old > OS that has old ghc binaries available, to generate the .c for that > old version of GHC (e.g. v 7.0 or something). Then I could use those > files to bootstrap a ghc 7.0 on my machine, and

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