6.8.1 from CVS

[Don Stewart]

mechvel:
> People,
> 
> please, how to download from CVS the ghc-6.8 branch ?
> (I need the last version of 6.8.1, the "nightly built")
> I do the following.
> 
>   set  $CVSROOT  to   :pserver:anoncvs at glass.cse.ogi.edu:/cvs
> 
>   cd $HOME/ghc/cvs
>   cvs login
>     Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs at glass.cse.ogi.edu:2401/cvs   -- its reply
>     CVS password:                                               --
>     password:  
>   cvs          -- entered password
>   
>     Unknown host glass.cse.ogi.edu.      
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance for your help,
> 
> -----------------

Hello Serge,

In the past year or so we've stopped using CVS. You can now get all the
source via the 'darcs' revision control system. Instructions for how to 
do this are on the GHC developers wiki:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSources

Good luck,
    Don