[Haskell-cafe] Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

David Menendez dave at zednenem.com
Sun Jul 18 13:38:33 EDT 2010


On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> andrewcoppin:
>> Don Stewart wrote:
>>> allbery:
>>>
>>>>> like to repeat one request: Please, please, please make it easier to
>>>>> - Download older versions of HP.
>>>>> - Find out which HP release contains what.
>>>>> - Figure out what the difference between release X and release Y is.
>>>>>
>>>> +1
>>>> I'd consider this mandatory.  It's amazing how many projects apparently *don't*.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We can certainly continue to link to old versions, to the old
>>> contents.html and the changelogs, as is currently planned.
>>>
>>
>> And unlike previous releases, this one seems to have a changelog. (It's
>> nontrivial comparing two Cabal files trying to figure out what changed!)
>
> Actually, it just got trivial:
>
>    $ diffcabal old-platform.cabal haskell-platform.cabal
>    Cabal 1.8.0.2 -> 1.8.0.6
>    QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 -> 2.1.1.1
[etc.]

Okay, so where do I go to find out the difference between, say,
QuickCheck 2.1.0.3 and 2.1.1.1?

-- 
Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
<http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>


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