Re: SHA256SUMS file for GHC 7.4.2

2015-03-31 Thread Andrés Sicard-Ramírez
On 31 March 2015 at 11:02, Austin Seipp wrote: > Ian, my predecessor, didn't previously sign releases in this manner. > As a result, you'll only find SHA256SUMS officially available for > 7.8.1 and beyond. Austin, thanks for the information. -- Andrés ___

Re: SHA256SUMS file for GHC 7.4.2

2015-03-31 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi Andres, The SHA256SUMS file and signature are part of my modus operandi. :) I began doing the release management work for GHC during the GHC 7.8 release cycle, and since then I've shipped every release with said file, and a detached GPG signature. Ian, my predecessor, didn't previously sign re

Re: Welcome, and getting started

2015-03-31 Thread John Wiegley
> Simon Marlow writes: > Perhaps some of this would be solved by switching to -dynamic by default for > everything, but there are performance issues with that. Some of these performance issues are documented at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DynamicByDefault John __

Re: Welcome, and getting started

2015-03-31 Thread John Wiegley
> Neil Mitchell writes: > Is the ability to generate dlls with both shared and non-shared RTS's a > feature of dynamic linking? At Standard Chartered we build non-shared > (static) dlls on Windows 32bit and shared-RTS dlls/sos on Linux 64bit. Both > are essential to us. I believe for your sc

SHA256SUMS file for GHC 7.4.2

2015-03-31 Thread Andrés Sicard-Ramírez
Hi, For GHC 7.10.1 or GHC 7.8.4 I could find the SHA256SUMS files in http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.1/ and http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.8.4/, respectively. The SHA256SUMS file for GHC 7.4.2 isn't in http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.4.2/. Where can I find this file? Thanks, --