[Haskell-cafe] Re: Announce: Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0 (beta) release

[Benjamin L. Russell]

Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> writes:

> Live from (post-) Zurihac, I'm pleased to announce the 2010.1.0.0 (beta branch)
> release of the Haskell Platform, supporting GHC 6.12.
>
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
>
> The Haskell Platform is a comprehensive, robust development environment for
> programming in Haskell. For new users the platform makes it trivial to get up
> and running with a full Haskell development environment. For experienced
> developers, the platform provides a comprehensive, standard base for commercial
> and open source Haskell development that maximises interoperability and
> stability of your code.
>
> The 2010.1.0.0 release is a beta release for the GHC 6.12 series of compilers. 
> It currently doesn't provide a Windows installer (which defaults to GHC 6.10.4
> for now). We expect to make the stable branch with GHC 6.12.2 in soon.
>
> This release includes a binary installer for Mac OS X Snow Leopard, as well as
> source bundles for an Unix system, and a new design.
>
> The Haskell Platform would not have been possible without the hard work
> of the Cabal development team, the Hackage developers and maintainers,
> the individual compiler, tool and library authors who contributed to the
> suite, and the distro maintainers who build and distribute the Haskell
> Platform.

Sorry for the late response, but just out of curiosity, are there any
plans to provide a binary installer for either the Haskell Platform or
GHC 6.12.1 for Mac OS X Leopard for the PowerPC CPU (as opposed to for
the Intel x86 CPU)?  I just checked the download-related Web sites for
both the Haskell Platform for the Mac (see
http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/mac.html) and for GHC 6.12.1 (see
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_6_12_1.html), but could find no
relevant information.

Currently, I'm using GHC 6.8.2, but this is an outdated version.

-- Benjamin L. Russell

>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Don  (for The Platform Infrastructure Team)

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