<div dir="ltr">The long anticipated Haskell Platform 2014.2 release, including GHC 7.8.3, and numerous updated packages, is almost here!<div><br></div><div>We have created "Release Candidate 2" installers for OS X and Windows, and believe, barring show stopper issues, creepers exploding, or other bizarre phenomenon, these will likely be blessed as the final in a few days time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you would like to be an early adopter, please try 'em out...</div><div><ul><li>source tarball: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-RC2.tar.gz">haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-RC2.tar.gz</a></li>
<li>source repo: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/2014.2.0.0-RC2">haskell/haskell-platform at 2014.2.0.0-RC2</a></li><li>windows 32bit: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-i386-RC2-setup.exe">hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-i386-RC2-setup.exe</a></li>
<li>windows 64bit:<a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-x86_64-RC2-setup.exe">hskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-x86_64-RC2-setup.exe</a></li><li>os x 64bit: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/Haskell%20Platform%202014.2.0.0%2064bit%20RC2.signed.pkg">Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 64bit RC2.signed.pkg</a></li>
<li>travis-ci build: <a href="https://travis-ci.org/haskell/haskell-platform">haskell/haskell-platform</a></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font size="4">Notes for RC2, since RC1:</font></b></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b>Windows</b><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><b><br></b></div>
</div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i>Extra thanks to Randy Polen for burning the midnight-oil to get ths out</i></div></blockquote>
<div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">removed unneeded python (et al) files from the GHC bindist for 64-bit Windows (referenced in GHC ticket <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9014" target="_blank">#9014</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">added HTML "view source" pages for the GHC packages that was missing from the GHC bindist for both 32- and 64-bit Windows.</li></ul><div></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<b>Mac OS X</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-size:13px"><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">If you installed RC1, you can remove first with the command </i><font face="courier new, monospace">sudo uninstall-hs only 7.8.3 --remove</font></div>
</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="font-size:13px"><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Run it without </i><font face="courier new, monospace">--remove</font><i style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> to see what it will do before running, it if you like. In theory you can just install this one right on top of RC1.... but hasn't been tested.</i></div>
</blockquote><div><div style><ul style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin-left:15px">file layout on the Mac... improved slightly (again). In particular, executables are now installed directly in $prefix/bin dirs, rather than within the package dir</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">fix the bug with haddock master index not being updated correctly<br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">works on 10.6! (and 10.7, 10.8, and 10.9) with gcc or clang based Xcodes</font></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">works on 10.10!!! (Yosemite, developer preview 4 release)</font></li></ul><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Source tarball</b></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><ul style="font-size:13px"><li style="margin-left:15px">missing sources in hptool now present</li><li style="margin-left:15px">platform.sh improved somewhat (in particular, handles host cabal being pre-sandbox)</li>
</ul><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><b>Timetable</b></font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">These can "soak" amongst the intreped on these lists for a few hours.</font></li>
<li style="font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Monday evening (PST) I'll announce to haskell-cafe and reddit</font></li><li style="font-size:13px;margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">End of next week (from my vacation, I'll point out), we'll declare success and ship.</font></li>
</ul></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">— Mark </font></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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