ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

[Alfredo Di Napoli]

Thanks Carter!

I have just asked basically about it on Reddit, in the announce thread.
I'll give it a spin, and if it works I will share the link (if you are ok
with that!) on the
same Reddit post.

Alfredo

On Tuesday, 23 December 2014, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Heres a OS X build that should work with >= 10.7
>
http://www.wellposed.com/opensource/ghc/releasebuild-unofficial/ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>
> and the sha 512
> shasum -a512 ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>
c6e76a2cd7ec7820d071ef1f417981845bb86c4c8337a57431136a375cbd0695fe810ec10963109ab1971d1a0ab80318c62d71b95eddb5657800cac296a260bd
 ghc-7.8.4-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com>
wrote:
>
> ==============================================================
>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.4
> ==============================================================
>
> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC,
7.8.4.
>
> This is an important bugfix release relative to 7.8.3 (with over 30
> defects fixed), so we highly recommend upgrading from the previous 7.8
> releases.
>
> The full release notes are here:
>
>
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-8-4.html
>
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> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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>
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