[Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.0.2 released

David Feuer david.feuer at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 13:45:38 UTC 2022


There's no such directory in the Hackage or GitHub source. I guess it must
have crept in on the GHC side?

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022, 4:13 AM Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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