[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 7 September 2012 02:05, Ian Lynagh <ian at well-typed.com> wrote:
>
>    =============================================================
>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1
>    =============================================================
>
> The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.
>
> Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4:
>
>   * Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and
>     supported features.
>
>   * Windows 64bit is now a supported platform.
>
>   * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the
>     -fdefer-type-errors flag.

Is this flag reversible in ghci, so I can :set it to check what's
going wrong with some code and then :unset it again?

>
>   * The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime
>     with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities.
>
> Full release notes are here:
>
>   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.6.1/html/users_guide/release-7-6-1.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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>
> On-line GHC-related resources
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>
> Supported Platforms
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
> is here:
>
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
>
> Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
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> new platform:
>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
>
>
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>
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