Just weighing in from the LTS side (and I guess MinGHC as well): having a link to 7.8.4 is definitely the right thing to do. LTS 2 will not compile with GHC 7.10 (see: https://github.com/fpco/stackage/issues/378 for more information).
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:45 AM Tamar Christina <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Howard, > > Ah, I was under the impression that there would be a download link from > the LTS section on the download page. > > Since there isn’t one I have updated the pull request with a section for > Haskell LTS which provides links to 7.8.4. > > It will look like > https://github.com/Mistuke/hl/blob/update-windows-download-pages/static/markdown/windows-install.md > > Regards, > Tamar > > *From:* Howard B. Golden <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, April 16, 2015 01:11 > *To:* Tamar Christina <[email protected]>, Simon Peyton Jones > <[email protected]>, Tamar Christina <[email protected]>, Roman Kuznetsov > <[email protected]>, kyra <[email protected]>, Darren Grant > <[email protected]>, David Macek <[email protected]>, Michael > Steele <[email protected]>, Andrew Klingenberg > <[email protected]> > *Cc:* GHC <[email protected]> > > Hi Windows Task Force, > > Rather than pointing to just the latest 7.10.1 release, please consider > having 7.10.1 and 7.8.4 links (and others if you wish). Haskell LTS 2.3 is > designed for GHC-7.8.4. It seems to me that many Windows users would find > that an attractive combination in addition to 7.10.1. > > Howard > ________________________________ > From: Tamar Christina <[email protected]> > To: Simon Peyton Jones <[email protected]>; Tamar Christina < > [email protected]>; Roman Kuznetsov <[email protected]>; Kyrill Briantsev < > [email protected]>; Darren Grant <[email protected]>; David Macek < > [email protected]>; Michael Steele <[email protected]>; Andrew > Klingenberg <[email protected]> > Cc: GHC <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 3:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Haskell] Haskell on Windows instructions - is MinGHC version > update needed? > > > > > Hi Simon, > > I have created a pull request to update the download links to 7.10.1 > releases. > > https://github.com/haskell-infra/hl/pull/106 > > Regards, > Tamar > > > From: Simon Peyton Jones > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 22:10 > To: Tamar Christina, Roman Kuznetsov, Kyrill Briantsev, Darren Grant, > David Macek, Michael Steele, Andrew Klingenberg > Cc: GHC > > > > Fwding to the GHC Windows Task force, who will doubtless know what to do. > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: Haskell [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Howard > B. > | Golden > | Sent: 15 April 2015 17:51 > | To: [email protected] > | Subject: [Haskell] Haskell on Windows instructions - is MinGHC version > | update needed? > | > | Hi, > | > | Currently, the Haskell website's Windows download page > | (https://www.haskell.org/downloads/windows) offers two alternatives, > | MinGHC and Haskell Platform. The MinGHC alternative has a link to MinGHC- > | 7.8.3 installer. Should this be updated to MinGHC-7.8.4? I ask this > | because Long Term Support Haskell 2.3 is now using GHC 7.8.4. If you want > | to update the link, you only need to change the URL from 7.8.3 to 7.8.4. > | > | Howard > | _______________________________________________ > | Haskell mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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