ANNOUNCE: GHC 6.10.1 RC 1

[Ian Lynagh]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:37:32PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > Please test as much as possible; bugs are much cheaper if we find them
> > before the release!
> 
> How about a test-suite?

Good point: I've addde one to
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/stable/dist/6.10.1-rc-1/rc.html

> P.S. "make binary-dist" creates a big unnecessary ".tar" file together
> with the final ".tar.bz2" file. Also a (disturbing) link
> "ghc-6.10.0.20081007 -> ." is created.

The link is deliberate (we tar things up from the build tree, rather
than making a ghc-6.10.0.20081007 directory and copying them there).

> ("make install" no longer reports
> which path to add)

Ooops, the logic for whether to print the message was the wrong way
round. Now fixed.


Thanks
Ian