[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.1

[Takenobu Tani]

Hi Platform team,

Congratulations!
Thank you for great effort :)

Regards,
Takenobu


2016-05-28 4:14 GMT+09:00 Gershom B <gershomb at gmail.com>:

> On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release
> of
>
> Haskell Platform 8.0.1
>
> Now available at
>
> https://www.haskell.org/platform/
>
> This platform includes features initially planned in the "Improving
> the 'Get Haskell Experience'" proposal of June 2015. [1]
>
>    * Minimal as well as Full distributions. The minimal distribution
> only includes GHC core libraries as well as additional tools. This is
> now the recommended distribution. The Full distribution remains an
> option for those who want a one-step installer with the broader set of
> platform libraries preinstalled.
>
>    * Inclusion of the Stack tool for developing Haskell projects [2]
>
> Other highlights of this release include the following
>
>    * The new cabal 1.24 including the great "new-build" tech preview
> of nix-like build dependency management [3]
>
>    * On windows, a cabal/msys setup that allows packages such as
> "network" to build "out of the box". (almost*)
>
>    * At long last, prebuilt Linux 32 bit platform installers
>
> Changes to Contents:
>
>    * Some packages have been removed from the installed packages set
> (both minimal and full) including old-locale, old-time, cgi, and the
> transitive cgi dependencies: transformers-compat, multipart, and
> exceptions.
>
>    * fixed has been added to the platform as a transitive dependency of
> GLUT.
>
> A full list of contents is available at
> https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html
>
> Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the
> package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC
> team for putting together such an exciting new compiler release!
>
> A fuller list of new GHC changes is available at:
> https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-May/012098.html
>
> A fuller list of new cabal changes is available at:
> http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2016-05-04-Cabal-1-24.html
>
> Happy Haskell Hacking all,
> Gershom
>
> [1]
> http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2015-July/003129.html
> [2] http://haskellstack.org
> [3]
> http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-nix-style-local-builds/
>
> * To build "network" and other msys-dependent packages on windows, you
> will need to augment your cabal config file with the following lines:
>
> extra-prog-path: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\msys\usr\bin
> extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\lib
> extra-include-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\include
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