<div dir="ltr">Just weighing in from the LTS side (and I guess MinGHC as well): having a link to 7.8.4 is definitely the right thing to do. LTS 2 will not compile with GHC 7.10 (see: <a href="https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/378">https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/378</a> for more information).<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:45 AM Tamar Christina <<a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com">lonetiger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family:'Calibri','Segoe UI','Meiryo','Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','sans-serif';font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Howard,</div><div><br></div><div>Ah, I was under the impression that there would be a download link from the LTS section on the download page.</div><div><br></div><div>Since there isn’t one I have updated the pull request with a section for Haskell LTS which provides links to 7.8.4.</div><div><br></div><div>It will look like <a href="https://github.com/Mistuke/hl/blob/update-windows-download-pages/static/markdown/windows-install.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/Mistuke/hl/blob/update-windows-download-pages/static/markdown/windows-install.md</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Tamar</div><div><br></div><div style="padding-top:5px;border-top-color:rgb(229,229,229);border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style="line-height:15pt;letter-spacing:0.02em;font-family:"Calibri","Segoe UI","Meiryo","Microsoft YaHei UI","Microsoft JhengHei UI","Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";font-size:12pt"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:howard_b_golden@yahoo.com" target="_blank">Howard B. Golden</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 16, 2015 01:11<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com" target="_blank">Tamar Christina</a>, <a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">Simon Peyton Jones</a>, <a href="mailto:tamar@zhox.com" target="_blank">Tamar Christina</a>, <a href="mailto:kuznero@gmail.com" target="_blank">Roman Kuznetsov</a>, <a href="mailto:kyrab@mail.ru" target="_blank">kyra</a>, <a href="mailto:dedgrant@gmail.com" target="_blank">Darren Grant</a>, <a href="mailto:david.macek.0@gmail.com" target="_blank">David Macek</a>, <a href="mailto:mikesteele81@gmail.com" target="_blank">Michael Steele</a>, <a href="mailto:asklingenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">Andrew Klingenberg</a><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">GHC</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div>Hi Windows Task Force,<br><br>Rather than pointing to just the latest 7.10.1 release, please consider having 7.10.1 and 7.8.4 links (and others if you wish). Haskell LTS 2.3 is designed for GHC-7.8.4. It seems to me that many Windows users would find that an attractive combination in addition to 7.10.1.<br><br>Howard<br>________________________________<br>From: Tamar Christina <<a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com" target="_blank">lonetiger@gmail.com</a>><br>To: Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>>; Tamar Christina <<a href="mailto:tamar@zhox.com" target="_blank">tamar@zhox.com</a>>; Roman Kuznetsov <<a href="mailto:kuznero@gmail.com" target="_blank">kuznero@gmail.com</a>>; Kyrill Briantsev <<a href="mailto:kyrab@mail.ru" target="_blank">kyrab@mail.ru</a>>; Darren Grant <<a href="mailto:dedgrant@gmail.com" target="_blank">dedgrant@gmail.com</a>>; David Macek <<a href="mailto:david.macek.0@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.macek.0@gmail.com</a>>; Michael Steele <<a href="mailto:mikesteele81@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikesteele81@gmail.com</a>>; Andrew Klingenberg <<a href="mailto:asklingenberg@gmail.com" target="_blank">asklingenberg@gmail.com</a>> <br>Cc: GHC <<a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a>> <br>Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Haskell] Haskell on Windows instructions - is MinGHC version update needed?</div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:'Calibri','Segoe UI','Meiryo','Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','sans-serif';font-size:12pt"><div dir=""><div><br><br><br><br>Hi Simon,<br><br>I have created a pull request to update the download links to 7.10.1 releases.<br><br><a href="https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/106" target="_blank">https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/106</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Tamar<br><br><br>From: Simon Peyton Jones<br>Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 22:10<br>To: Tamar Christina, Roman Kuznetsov, Kyrill Briantsev, Darren Grant, David Macek, Michael Steele, Andrew Klingenberg<br>Cc: GHC<br><br><br><br>Fwding to the GHC Windows Task force, who will doubtless know what to do.<br><br>Simon<br><br>| -----Original Message-----<br>| From: Haskell [mailto:<a href="mailto:haskell-bounces@haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell-bounces@haskell.org</a>] On Behalf Of Howard B.<br>| Golden<br>| Sent: 15 April 2015 17:51<br>| To: <a href="mailto:haskell@haskell.org" target="_blank">haskell@haskell.org</a><br>| Subject: [Haskell] Haskell on Windows instructions - is MinGHC version<br>| update needed?<br>| <br>| Hi,<br>| <br>| Currently, the Haskell website's Windows download page<br>| (<a href="https://www.haskell.org/downloads/windows" target="_blank">https://www.haskell.org/downloads/windows</a>) offers two alternatives,<br>| MinGHC and Haskell Platform. The MinGHC alternative has a link to MinGHC-<br>| 7.8.3 installer. Should this be updated to MinGHC-7.8.4? I ask this<br>| because Long Term Support Haskell 2.3 is now using GHC 7.8.4. If you want<br>| to update the link, you only need to change the URL from 7.8.3 to 7.8.4.<br>| <br>| Howard<br>| _______________________________________________<br>| Haskell mailing list<br>| <a href="mailto:Haskell@haskell.org" target="_blank">Haskell@haskell.org</a><br>| <a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell" target="_blank">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>ghc-devs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs" target="_blank">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ghc-devs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org" target="_blank">ghc-devs@haskell.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs" target="_blank">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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