ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.2 Release Candidate

[Alfonso Acosta]

I know there are some problems with Leopard (OSX 10.5) but, before
bothering compile the release, should it be expected to work on
Leopard/PPC or Leopard/Intel?

On Dec 7, 2007 1:58 PM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
>
> We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.2.
>
>     Snapshots beginning with 6.8.1.20071206 are release candidates for 6.8.2
>
> You can download snapshots from here:
>
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
>
> Right now we have the source bundles:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.1.20071206-src.tar.bz2
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.1.20071206-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
>
> Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains
> various extra packages that are often supplied with GHC - unpack the
> extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will
> be included in the build automatically.
>
> There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.
>
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
>
> We expect to release in a few days, assuming no major issues are
> discovered.
>
>
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
>
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