[Haskell-cafe] Announce: Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 (beta) release

[Andy Georges]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 16:06 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

> Live from (post-) Zurihac, I'm pleased to announce the 2010.1.0.0 (beta branch)
> release of the Haskell Platform, supporting GHC 6.12.
> 
>    http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
> 
> The Haskell Platform is a comprehensive, robust development environment for
> programming in Haskell. For new users the platform makes it trivial to get up
> and running with a full Haskell development environment. For experienced
> developers, the platform provides a comprehensive, standard base for commercial
> and open source Haskell development that maximises interoperability and
> stability of your code.
> 
> The 2010.1.0.0 release is a beta release for the GHC 6.12 series of compilers. 
> It currently doesn't provide a Windows installer (which defaults to GHC 6.10.4
> for now). We expect to make the stable branch with GHC 6.12.2 in soon.
> 
> This release includes a binary installer for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, as well as
> source bundles for an Unix system, and a new design.

Just a quick note. After installing the OSX installer tries to log you out, if you have authenticated to have it drop the goodies in /Library/Frameworks.

-- Andy