ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.8.3 Release Candidate

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

No,  ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2  (`made' on Debian Linux, i686)
does not work.
See  DoCon-2.11.
It compiles  DoCon-2.11  with taking too much memory (> 300 Mb) and 
3-4 times more of time than ghc-6.8.2.
And then, the test fails.

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Serge Mechveliani
mechvel at botik.ru



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:20:33PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> We are pleased to announce the Release Candidate phase for GHC 6.8.3.
> 
>     Snapshots beginning with 6.8.2.20080527 are release candidates for 6.8.3
> 
> You can download snapshots from here:
> 
>     http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/
> 
> Right now we have the source bundles:
> 
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src.tar.bz2
> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/ghc-6.8.2.20080527-src-extralibs.tar.bz2
> 
> 
> Only the first of these is necessary. The "extralibs" package contains
> various extra packages that are often supplied with GHC - unpack the
> extralibs tarball on top of the source tree to add them, and they will
> be included in the build automatically.
> 
> There is also currently an installer for i386/Windows and binary
> distributions for x86_64/Linux and i386/Linux. More may appear later.
> 
> Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> before the release!
> 
> We expect to release in a few days, assuming no major issues are
> discovered.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Ian, on behalf of the GHC team
> 
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