[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.2 released

[Jens Petersen]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 15:40, David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could you explain what you mean about the containers source not being
> "clean"?
>

I forgot to say "in the source tarball" explicitly.
If you look in libraries/containers/containers/dist-install, you can see
what I am talking about.
(I first discovered this because it broke the Fedora build - so I just
remove it before building.)

Jens

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 2:31 AM Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> First of all a big thank you and congratulations on the highly
>> anticipated 9.0.2 release.
>>
>> I have been putting off this mail for a while:
>> I actually built it last month right away in Fedora's new ghc9.0 package
>> (available now for all current Fedora releases).
>> Also Stackage Nightly (primarily thanks to Adam Bergmark) was updated to
>> 9.0.2, since nightly-2022-01-10. :-)
>>
>> However two points I wanted to mention:
>>
>>    - firstly (minor), the libraries/containers source is not clean
>>    (which explains why the tarball is so big)
>>
>>
>>    - More serious: why was Win32 major bumped from 2.10 to 2.12?
>>       - this breaks foundation, hence current Stackage Nightly is kind
>>       of broken for Windows now:
>>       https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/6400
>>
>> I can't really see any good way to resolve this in the short term.
>>
>> Thanks, Jens
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 26 Dec 2021 at 04:23, Zubin Duggal <zubin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The GHC developers are very happy to at long last announce the
>>> availability of GHC 9.0.2. Binary distributions, source distributions,
>>> and documentation are available at the
>>> [usual place](https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/9.0.2/).
>>>
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