Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-27 Thread Simon Marlow
Christian Maeder wrote: Simon Marlow schrieb: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6 Download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ I've

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-27 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: Christian Maeder wrote: I've downloaded the source bundle ghc-6.5.20060918-src.tar.bz After ./configure and make, I realized that I have no root permissions for installation. So called ./configure --prefix=/local/home/maeder/ghc-6.5 followed by make and make install

Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-19 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Monday, September 4, 2006, 1:16:22 PM, you wrote: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/ghc-language-features.html still don't mention -fparr option :) -fparr is definitely not working in 6.6, so documenting it would almost certainly be a bad idea. it

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-19 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6 Download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ I've downloaded the source

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-18 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Zielonka | Sent: 01 September 2006 19:55 | To: Simon Marlow | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate | | On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:03:09AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: | Please test as much as possible, bugs are much cheaper if we find them | before

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-05 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, Which version of the testsuite should I be using to test my builds of the release candidates? Best Wishes, Greg On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Snapshots beginning

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-05 Thread Simon Marlow
On 05 September 2006 14:21, Gregory Wright wrote: Which version of the testsuite should I be using to test my builds of the release candidates? Good question. We haven't made any tarballs of the testsuite, but just grabbing the current sources from darcs is fine. Cheers, Simon

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Simon, Friday, September 1, 2006, 2:03:09 PM, you wrote: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Release Notes don't mention new features added to 7.4.12. Generalised derived instances for newtypes, namely

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-04 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| also, section 7.4.7 of GHC documentation | ( http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/docs/users_guide/type-extensions .html#linear-implicit- | parameters ) | mentions linear implicit parameters what was planned to omit from GHC 6.6 I've now removed linear implicit parameters from the User

ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-01 Thread Simon Marlow
Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6 Download snapshots from here: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ Right now we have the source bundles:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-01 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, September 1, 2006, 2:03:09 PM, you wrote: Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.6. Release Notes don't mention new features added to 7.4.12. Generalised derived instances for newtypes, namely automatic deriving instances for

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

2006-09-01 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:03:09AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: Please test as much as possible, bugs are much cheaper if we find them before the release! I was playing with impredicativity, when I got this strange error message: Prelude :l Imp [1 of 1] Compiling Imp (