HP 2015.2.0.0 and GHC 7.10

[George Colpitts]

Thanks for doing this, AFAIK there is no bindist for 7.10.3 on the Mac. I
downloaded and installed it, works great. I used it to install hlint and
criterion. The only issue I saw was that uninstall didn't remove ghc
executables of older versions that I had in /usr/local/bin (earlier bindist
of 7.10.1rc2). Looking forward to using next version for 7.10.1 final

Thanks again

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've gone ahead and built a very provisional, alpha version of 2015.2.0.0
> using GHC 7.10 RC3.
>
> I bumped all the GHC libs to the versions in 7.10, and bumped all the
> Platform libs to the latest versions I could find on Hackage. There were a
> few issues:
>
>    - *old-locale and old-time* - no longer part of GHC, but
>    cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform -
>    so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since
>    they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP
>    update, not sure what else to do.
>    - *tf-random* - is now required by alex and QuickCheck - seems a shame
>    to add this, as now we're going to have two random packages
>    - *network-uri *- was split out of network, and needed by
>    cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP. I suppose we should include it, as it was
>    functionality and API that was part of the platform
>    - *exceptions* & *multipart* - needed by cgi - is exceptions now
>    subsumed by something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to drop
>    cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile!
>    - *scientific* - needed by attoparsec - debated in detail last time
>    ... and we're still here!
>
> The Platform is significantly larger now: On OS X it has gone from 316M to
> 499M! Most of this is due to new OpenGL libs which are now huge (went from
> 98M to 239M!) GHC itself grew by 109M (to almost 1G), so that the whole
> installed magilla is 1.5G! Even the compressed installer is now 250M!
>
> If you want to poke at it, the source is in the pre-release branch at
> GitHub <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/pre-release>,
> and the OS X builds are at my usual platform staging area:
>
> Index of /mark/platform <http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/>
>
>
> Remember, it already includes GHC, so no need to download the GHC binary
> for OS X that is there, too.
>
> I'll try to get a generic linux build up soonish... but my VM now runs out
> of memory trying to build OpenGL - and adding more only makes my machine
> thrash to death!
>
> - Mark
>
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