ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.0.1 Release Candidate 2

Christian Maeder Christian.Maeder at dfki.de
Mon Nov 1 15:26:47 EDT 2010


Am 29.10.2010 20:38, schrieb Ian Lynagh:
> 
> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.0.1:
> 
>     http://new-www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.0.1-rc2/

Works fine for me. I need a higher -fcontext-stack of 31 (instead of 20)
and the compile time without optimization increased from 9 to 15 minutes
(which isn't bad).

Cheers C.

> 
> This includes the source tarball, installers for OS X and Windows, and
> bindists for amd64/Linux, i386/Linux, amd64/FreeBSD and i386/FreeBSD.
> 
> Amongst the changes since RC 1 are:
> 
> * -fglasgow-exts now gives a deprecated warning, and no longer enables
>   GADTs or TypeFamilies.
> 
> * The haskell98 packge is no longer automatically linked, although this
>   often won't make a difference as --make is now enabled by default.
> 
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team


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