<div dir="ltr">Nice! That was really fast!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- Dan Burton</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Gershom B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gershomb@gmail.com" target="_blank">gershomb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of<br>
<br>
Haskell Platform 8.0.1<br>
<br>
Now available at<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.haskell.org/platform/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.haskell.org/platform/</a><br>
<br>
This platform includes features initially planned in the "Improving<br>
the 'Get Haskell Experience'" proposal of June 2015. [1]<br>
<br>
   * Minimal as well as Full distributions. The minimal distribution<br>
only includes GHC core libraries as well as additional tools. This is<br>
now the recommended distribution. The Full distribution remains an<br>
option for those who want a one-step installer with the broader set of<br>
platform libraries preinstalled.<br>
<br>
   * Inclusion of the Stack tool for developing Haskell projects [2]<br>
<br>
Other highlights of this release include the following<br>
<br>
   * The new cabal 1.24 including the great "new-build" tech preview<br>
of nix-like build dependency management [3]<br>
<br>
   * On windows, a cabal/msys setup that allows packages such as<br>
"network" to build "out of the box". (almost*)<br>
<br>
   * At long last, prebuilt Linux 32 bit platform installers<br>
<br>
Changes to Contents:<br>
<br>
   * Some packages have been removed from the installed packages set<br>
(both minimal and full) including old-locale, old-time, cgi, and the<br>
transitive cgi dependencies: transformers-compat, multipart, and<br>
exceptions.<br>
<br>
   * fixed has been added to the platform as a transitive dependency of GLUT.<br>
<br>
A full list of contents is available at<br>
<a href="https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html</a><br>
<br>
Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the<br>
package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC<br>
team for putting together such an exciting new compiler release!<br>
<br>
A fuller list of new GHC changes is available at:<br>
<a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-May/012098.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-May/012098.html</a><br>
<br>
A fuller list of new cabal changes is available at:<br>
<a href="http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2016-05-04-Cabal-1-24.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2016-05-04-Cabal-1-24.html</a><br>
<br>
Happy Haskell Hacking all,<br>
Gershom<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2015-July/003129.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2015-July/003129.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://haskellstack.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://haskellstack.org</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-nix-style-local-builds/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-nix-style-local-builds/</a><br>
<br>
* To build "network" and other msys-dependent packages on windows, you<br>
will need to augment your cabal config file with the following lines:<br>
<br>
extra-prog-path: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\msys\usr\bin<br>
extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\lib<br>
extra-include-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\include<br>
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