Re: [Haskell] ANN: git-monitor

2015-01-22 Thread Ben Gamari
John Wiegley writes: >> John Wiegley writes: > >> https://github.com/jwiegley/git-monitor > > The page is: > > https://github.com/jwiegley/gitlib > Looks great! Power consumption could be further improved by using inotify [1] (or the host's operating system's analogue) to avoid unne

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

2015-07-29 Thread Ben Gamari
= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.2 = The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release of GHC, 7.10.2. There have been a

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

2015-07-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Andrés Sicard-Ramírez writes: > Hi, > > On 29 July 2015 at 10:26, Ben Gamari wrote: >> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new bug-fix release of GHC, >> 7.10.2. > > Thanks for the release! > > FYI, there are various missing *.tar.xz files in

Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

2015-07-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Mikhail Glushenkov writes: > Hi, > > On 29 July 2015 at 17:26, Ben Gamari wrote: >> [...] >> The full release notes including a complete listing of the changes in >> this release can be found here, >> >> >> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.1

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

2015-07-30 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello again! See below for an important announcement regarding the `text` issue described earlier. Ben Gamari writes: > = > The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version

Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

2015-07-30 Thread Ben Gamari
James M writes: > There was talk from an earlier email thread of releasing the Haskell > Platform at the same time as 7.10.2. > > I am referring to the weekly news of 2015/05/11: > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20150511 > > and this email thread: > https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail

Re: [Haskell] ETA on 7.10.3?

2015-09-02 Thread Ben Gamari
David Banas writes: > Hi, > > Does anyone have an ETA for ghc v7.10.3? > (I'm trying to decide between waiting and backing up to 7.8.2, for a > particular project.) > Currently there are no plans to do a 7.10.3 release. 7.10.2 does has a few issues, but none of them are critical regressions but n

Re: [Haskell] ETA on 7.10.3?

2015-09-02 Thread Ben Gamari
David Banas writes: > Hi Ben, > > Thanks for your reply. > No worries. Please excuse the grammar in the reply; reading over it now it's quite embarrassing. Clearly needed a read-through before sending. > My problem is the project I’m currently working on is dependent upon > HERMIT, which doesn’t

Re: [Haskell] [Haskell-cafe] Call for Contributions - Haskell Communities and Activities Report, May 2016 edition (30th edition)

2016-05-01 Thread Ben Gamari
tributors to polish, optimize, document, refactor, or finish the features we already have. Of course, GHC only evolves because of its contributors. Please let us know if you have a pet project that you'd like to see merged! \paragraph{Libraries, source language, type system} \begin{itemize}

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.0.1 is available!

2016-05-22 Thread Ben Gamari
=== The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.0.1 === The GHC developers are very pleased to announce the release of the first new super-major version of our Haskell compiler

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.1 available

2017-07-27 Thread Ben Gamari
=== The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.2.1 === The GHC developers are very happy to announce the long-awaited 8.2.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Binary and sou

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.2.2 released

2017-11-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Editorial note: This was released last week but the announcement never made it to haskell@haskell.org === The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 8.2.2 === The GHC Team

Re: [Haskell] Performance impact of GHC profiling?

2017-12-28 Thread Ben Gamari
"Howard B. Golden via Haskell" writes: > Hi, > > I have wondered what the approximate execution (not compilation) performance > impact (time, space) of compiling all Haskell programs with -prof and -fprof- > auto compared to regular compilations. For this purpose, I assume that I > would > run

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1 released

2018-03-19 Thread Ben Gamari
(Apologies for the belated announcement on this list) The GHC developers are very happy to announce the 8.4.1 release of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Binary and source distributions can be found at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1/ This is the third major release in the GHC 8 series. A

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.2 released

2018-04-19 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.2. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.2 This release is a bug-fix release, fixing numerous regressions and b

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.3 released

2018-05-29 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC team is pleased to announce the availability of GHC 8.4.3. The source distribution, binary distributions, and documentation for this release are available at https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.3 This release includes a few bug fixes including: * A code generatio

[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-beta1 available

2018-08-10 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, The GHC development team is very pleased to announce the first beta leading up to GHC 8.6.1 release. The usual release artifacts are available from https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-beta1 This beta fixes most of the bugs reported in the first two alphas and brings all

[Haskell] [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 o

Re: [Haskell] [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,

[Haskell] [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 bu

[Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Hi everyone, Recently Neil Mitchell opened a pull request [1] proposing a single-line change: Adding `{-# HLINT ... #-}` to the list of pragmas ignored by the lexer. I'm a bit skeptical of this idea. Afterall, adding cases to the lexer for every tool that wants a pragma seems quite unsustainable.

Re: [Haskell] Treatment of unknown pragmas

2018-10-16 Thread Ben Gamari
Vladislav Zavialov writes: > What about introducing -fno-warn-pragma=XXX? People who use HLint will > add -fno-warn-pragma=HLINT to their build configuration. > A warning flag is an interesting way to deal with the issue. On the other hand, it's not great from an ergonomic perspective; afterall,

[Haskell] 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 [

[Haskell] [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 regre

[Haskell] [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 sev

[Haskell] [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 s

Re: [Haskell] [Numeric] Announce: comfort-array, lapack

2019-05-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Henning Thielemann writes: > I like two announce two of my packages: > > 1. comfort-array > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/comfort-array > > It provides Boxed and Storable arrays with very liberal shape definitions. > You may use ranges of indices like in 'array' or zero-based indexing like

[Haskell] The future of the SPARC NCG backend

2019-07-01 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] https://gitlab

[Haskell] [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: * Th

[Haskell] [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: * Th

[Haskell] [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 U

[Haskell] [HiW'20] Call for Talks

2020-03-16 Thread Ben Gamari
rence organizers are working to ensure that the Implementors Workshop can be held safely and productively, regardless of how the COVID-19 situation evolves. Program Committee - - Andrey Mokhov (Newcastle University) - Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) - Christian Baaij (QBay

[Haskell] [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 newt

Re: [Haskell] [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

[Haskell] [HIW'20] Second Call for Talks

2020-05-14 Thread Ben Gamari
Committee - - Andrey Mokhov (Newcastle University) - Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) - Christian Baaij (QBayLogic) - George Karachalias (Tweag I/O) - Klara Marntirosian (KU Leuven) - Matthew Pickering (Univeristy of Bristol) - Ryan G.L. Scott (Indiana University

[Haskell] [HIW'20] Third Call for Talks

2020-06-24 Thread Ben Gamari
. Program Committee - - Andrey Mokhov (Newcastle University) - Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) - Christian Baaij (QBayLogic) - George Karachalias (Tweag I/O) - Klara Marntirosian (KU Leuven) - Matthew Pickering (Univeristy of Bristol) - Ryan G.L. Scott (Indiana University

[Haskell] [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

[Haskell] [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. How

Re: [Haskell] [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

[Haskell] [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 Windo

Re: [Haskell] [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

[Haskell] [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 expecte

[Haskell] [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 Linea

[Haskell] [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 co

[Haskell] [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 feat