there is a bindist for 7.10 RC3 - right alongside the HP I built. I'm the builder for the bindists for GHC of OS X - not sure why Austin never put it on the GHC site.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:51 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for doing this, AFAIK there is no bindist for 7.10.3 on the Mac. I > downloaded and installed it, works great. I used it to install hlint and > criterion. The only issue I saw was that uninstall didn't remove ghc > executables of older versions that I had in /usr/local/bin (earlier bindist > of 7.10.1rc2). Looking forward to using next version for 7.10.1 final > > Thanks again > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentcz...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I've gone ahead and built a very provisional, alpha version of 2015.2.0.0 >> using GHC 7.10 RC3. >> >> I bumped all the GHC libs to the versions in 7.10, and bumped all the >> Platform libs to the latest versions I could find on Hackage. There were a >> few issues: >> >> - *old-locale and old-time* - no longer part of GHC, but >> cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform - >> so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since >> they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP >> update, not sure what else to do. >> - *tf-random* - is now required by alex and QuickCheck - seems a >> shame to add this, as now we're going to have two random packages >> - *network-uri *- was split out of network, and needed by >> cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP. I suppose we should include it, as it was >> functionality and API that was part of the platform >> - *exceptions* & *multipart* - needed by cgi - is exceptions now >> subsumed by something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to >> drop >> cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile! >> - *scientific* - needed by attoparsec - debated in detail last time >> ... and we're still here! >> >> The Platform is significantly larger now: On OS X it has gone from 316M >> to 499M! Most of this is due to new OpenGL libs which are now huge (went >> from 98M to 239M!) GHC itself grew by 109M (to almost 1G), so that the >> whole installed magilla is 1.5G! Even the compressed installer is now 250M! >> >> If you want to poke at it, the source is in the pre-release branch at >> GitHub <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/pre-release>, >> and the OS X builds are at my usual platform staging area: >> >> Index of /mark/platform <http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/> >> >> >> Remember, it already includes GHC, so no need to download the GHC binary >> for OS X that is there, too. >> >> I'll try to get a generic linux build up soonish... but my VM now runs >> out of memory trying to build OpenGL - and adding more only makes my >> machine thrash to death! >> >> - Mark >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ghc-devs mailing list >> ghc-devs@haskell.org >> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >> >> >
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