ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 6.4.2

[Simon Marlow]

Brian Hulley wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
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>>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4.2
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> 
> 
> I notice that everything except the standalone Windows port is now 
> available for download. How soon will this be avaliable? (No great rush, 
> just interested :-) )

Our Windows guru and package builder (Sigbjorn Finne) is currently 
offline (on holiday?) but he should be back soon.  The Windows nightly 
builds are still running, so you can grab a snapshot build which is 
essentially 6.4.2:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/

> (The Visual Haskell port, while looking great, unfortunately has a 
> restrictive Microsoft component of the license that prohibits use for 
> commercial development so I can't use it unfortunately (unless someone 
> can persuade Microsoft to delete their license component....(!))

We are able to release VH under a BSD license now.  The code is in darcs 
and BSD licensed: http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell/.  I think the 
current binary distribution still has the old license, but we'll 
hopefully refresh the distribution at some point.

Cheers,
	Simon