Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.1

2015-03-27 Thread Jan Stolarek
Austin, links to x86_64 linux versions for CentOS don't work.

Janek


Dnia piątek, 27 marca 2015, Austin Seipp napisał:
 ==
 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.1
 ==

 The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
 have been a number of significant changes since the last major
 release, including:

   * Several new language features and changes have been implemented:
 - Applicative is now a superclass of Monad and in the Prelude.

 - Many prelude combinators have been generalized

 - Static pointers

   * GHC now has preliminary and experimental support for DWARF based
 debugging.

   * `integer-gmp` has been completely rewritten.

   * Type-checking plugins can now extend the type checker.

   * Support for partial type signatures

   * Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.

   * Preliminary support for 'backpack' features like signatures.

   * Typeable is now generated by default for all data types automatically.

 We've also fixed a handful of issues reported since RC3:

   - A bug in the call arity analysis that would result in invalid core
 was fixed (#10176)
   - A bug in the Win32 package causing it to fail to load was fixed
 (#10165) - ghc-prim has (correctly) been bumped to version 0.4.0.0, to
 comply with the PVP.
   - Several libraries have been bumped to their latest available
 versions after coordination.

 The full release notes are here:

 https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-1
0-1.html


 How to get it
 ~

 The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:

 https://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.

 GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell.  Included is
 an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
 platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
 development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
 facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
 language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
 language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
 BSD-style open source license.

 A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
 specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
 contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
 Haskell home page (see below).


 On-line GHC-related resources
 ~~

 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:

 GHC home page  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
 GHC developers' home page  http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
 Haskell home page  http://www.haskell.org/


 Supported Platforms
 ~~~

 The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
 is here:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CodeOwners

 Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
 difficulty.  The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
 new platform:

 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building


 Developers
 ~~

 We welcome new contributors.  Instructions on accessing our source
 code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
 available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:

   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/


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 ~

 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
 the web interfaces at

 https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
 https://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs

 There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
 www.haskell.org; for the full list, see

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 Please report bugs using our bug tracking system.  Instructions on
 reporting bugs can be found here:

 https://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug


 Hashes  Signatures
 ~

 On https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/ you will find a signed
 copy of the SHA256 hashes for the tarballs, using my GPG key (0F8F
 3AA9 9235 C704 ADA0  B419 B942 AEE5 3B58 D86F).



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Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.1

2015-03-27 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk

On 03/27/2015 07:43 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:
 ==
 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.10.1
 ==

 The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
 have been a number of significant changes since the last major
 release, including:

   * Several new language features and changes have been implemented:
 - Applicative is now a superclass of Monad and in the Prelude.

 - Many prelude combinators have been generalized

 [snip]

I wanted to learn about which combinators have been updated so I click
on ‘GHC 7.10 Migration Guide’ in linked documentation page but it seems
that it doesn't lead anywhere, or rather leads to the page it's linked
from. It was probably meant to link to
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Migration/7.10

-- 
Mateusz K.
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