[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 now available

[Don Stewart]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 15.04.2011, 15:44 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart:
>> We're pleased to announce the 2011.2.0.1 release of the Haskell Platform:
>> a single, standard Haskell distribution for everyone.
>>
>> Download the Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1:
>>
>>     http://haskell.org/platform/
>
> or use Debian unstable, which ships this version of the platform since
> five days already: http://people.debian.org/~nomeata/platform.html


Good work!

Is the link to Debian on the http://haskell.org/platform homepage correct?


>  * We only ship it already because the file on
> http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/haskell-platform.cabal
> has already changed earlier, which was linked by
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html so we thought this is
> already official and released and we just missed the announcement.

Do you watch the haskell-platform at projects.haskell.org mailing list?
There we announced the freeze, and the initial release candidates.


> Maybe it would be better if released versions get their own, static
> directory again, as it was the case for
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell-platform.cabal
> and
> http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.2.0.0/haskell-platform.cabal

Good idea.

> and the relationship between the repositories
> http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ and
> http://code.galois.com/darcs/haskell-platform/ should be explained on
> http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/.

That's just a temporary problem, since code.haskell.org was moved.

-- Don