ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.4

Carter Schonwald carter.schonwald at gmail.com
Wed Dec 24 15:57:06 UTC 2014


sure, please verify first.  (also make sure haddock etc works for you, i
had to remove a haddock binary from ~/.cabal/bin before haddocks were
building correctly for me)

On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Alfredo Di Napoli <
alfredo.dinapoli at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> > How to get it
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
> >
> >         https://www.haskell.org/ghc/
> >
> > We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
> > platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
> > place.
> >
> > Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
> > system isn't available yet, please try again later.
> >
> >
> > Background
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
> >
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> >
> >
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> >
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> >
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> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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> > is here:
> >
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> >
> > Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
> > difficulty.  The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
> > new platform:
> >
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> >
> >
> > Developers
> > ~~~~~~~~~~
> >
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> >
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> >
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