Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Hello everyone, > snip > > * Compatibility with earlier Cabal versions should be a bit more > robust. > Unfortunately this characterization was perhaps a bit optimistic. Sadly the errors provided by GHC when used with an older Cabal aren't any

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Páli Gábor János writes: > Hello there, > > 2016-02-07 19:13 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari : >> The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the second release candidate of >> the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. > > For the FreeBSD users, the vanilla binary

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-07 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the second release candidate of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Source and binary distributions as well as the newly revised users guide and Haddock documentation can be found at

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-07 Thread Ben Gamari
George Colpitts writes: > Good news! I assume there will be a Mac OS binary distribution soon? > There is one currently; "Darwin" is the name of the Mac OS X kernel. Cheers, - Ben signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-07 Thread George Colpitts
Good news! I assume there will be a Mac OS binary distribution soon? On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the second release candidate of > the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. Source and

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-07 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > George Colpitts writes: > >> Good news! I assume there will be a Mac OS binary distribution soon? >> > There is one currently; "Darwin" is the name of the Mac OS X kernel. > Hmm, I should have fact-checked that first: XNU is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 release candidate 2

2016-02-07 Thread Páli Gábor János
Hello there, 2016-02-07 19:13 GMT+01:00 Ben Gamari : > The GHC Team is very pleased to announce the second release candidate of > the Glasgow Haskell Compiler 8.0.1 release. For the FreeBSD users, the vanilla binary distributions are available here, along with a brief