ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.1

Dominick Samperi djsamperi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 9 15:23:42 UTC 2014


Thank you Austin!

I unpacked the Windows 64bit distribution and tried to update cabal as
instructed, but got this:
Registering zlib-0.5.4.1...
cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
HTTP-4000.2.12 depends on network 2.4.2.2 which failed to install.
network-2.4.2.2 failed during the configure step.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> wrote:
>    ==============================================================
>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1
>    ==============================================================
>
> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
> have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
> including:
>
>   * New type-system features
>     * Closed type families
>     * Role checking
>     * An improved solver for type naturals
>   * Better support for cross compilation
>   * Full iOS support
>   * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager
>   * Dynamic linking for GHCi
>   * Several language improvements
>     * Pattern synonyms
>     * Overloaded list syntax
>     * Kind-polymorphic 'Typeable' class
>   * A new parallel --make mode
>   * Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support
>   * A brand-new low level code generator
>   * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.
>
> The full release notes are here:
>
>   http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html
>
> How to get it
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
>
>         http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
>
> We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
> platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
> place.
>
> Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
> system isn't available yet, please try again later.
>
>
> Background
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language.
>
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> language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
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>
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>
>
> On-line GHC-related resources
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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>
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>
> Supported Platforms
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
> is here:
>
>    http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC
>
> Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
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> new platform:
>
>     http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
>
>
> Developers
> ~~~~~~~~~~
>
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>
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>
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> --
> Regards,
>
> Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
> Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
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