ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

I wrote,
> Ian Lynagh wrote:
>>  =============================================================
>>   The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.8.2
>>  =============================================================
>>
>> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of GHC.
>> This release contains a number of bugfixes relative to 6.8.1,  
>> including
>> some significant performance fixes, so we recommend upgrading.
>
> A binary distribution for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is available from
>
>  http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.2-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
>
> To use this binary distribution, you need to have "readline" from  
> MacPorts installed.
>
> Manuel
>
> PS: This time around, there should be no dependency on MacPorts'  
> "gmp", but this is hard for me to test locally.

I just updated the binary distribution at

   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc-6.8.2-i386-apple-darwin.tar.bz2

It *definitely* does not require any version of GMP to be pre- 
installed anymore.  All that is needed it MacPort's readline.

Ian, can you please update the binary on the download page?

Manuel

PS: Moreover, binaries produced by the above compiler will run on any  
Leopard box.