ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.6 Release Candidate

[Gregory Wright]

Hi Simon,

Which version of the testsuite should I be using to test my
builds of the release candidates?

Best Wishes,
Greg


On Sep 1, 2006, at 6:03 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

> Only a week late, we are pleased to announce the Release Candidate  
> phase for GHC 6.6.
>
> 	Snapshots beginning with 6.5.20060831 are release candidates for 6.6
>
> Download snapshots from here:
>
>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/
>
> Right now we have the source bundles:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831- 
> src.tar.bz2
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/current/dist/ghc-6.5.20060831-src- 
> extralibs.tar.bz2
>
> Only the first of these is necessary.  The "extralibs" package  
> contains various extra packages that we normally supply with GHC  
> (and a couple of new ones) - unpack the extralibs tarball on top of  
> the source tree to add them, they will be included in the build  
> automatically.
>
> There are also currently binary distributions for x86_64/Linux  
> (Fedora Core 5), i386/Linux (RedHat 7(!)), and Windows.  More may  
> appear later.
>
> Please test as much as possible, bugs are much cheaper if we find  
> them before the release!
>
> Which brings me on to the release itself: we had planned to release  
> before ICFP, but that only leaves just over a week, which isn't  
> really enough time to test the RC thoroughly, so it's looking like  
> the 6.6 release will happen after ICFP now.  In the meantime we  
> have the RC to play with, so enjoy...
>
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
>
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