<div dir="ltr"><i>Even I find it hard to believe that it's finally here!</i><div><br></div><div><b>I'm happy to announce the RC1 release of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0.</b></div><div><br></div><div>You can find builds for Windows (32bit and 64bit), Mac (64bit), as well as a source tarball, and a tag in the repo:</div>
<div><br></div><div><ul><li>source tarball: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-RC1.tar.gz">haskell-platform-2014.2.0.0-RC1.tar.gz</a><br></li><li>source repo: <a href="https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/2014.2.0.0-RC1">https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/2014.2.0.0-RC1</a></li>
<li>windows 32bit: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/HaskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-i386-RC1-setup.exe">HaskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-i386-RC1-setup.exe</a></li><li>windows 64bit: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/HaskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-x86_64-RC1-setup.exe">HaskellPlatform-2014.2.0.0-x86_64-RC1-setup.exe</a></li>
<li>os x 64bit: <a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/Haskell%20Platform%202014.2.0.0%2064bit%20RC1.signed.pkg">Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0 64bit RC1.signed.pkg</a></li><li>travis-ci build: <a href="https://travis-ci.org/haskell/haskell-platform/builds/30723884">20</a></li>
</ul></div><div><b>Notes:</b></div><div><br></div><div>General</div><div><ul><li>Built with the new shake based build system</li><li>cgi package not included as it doesn't build under 7.8, and no word from the maintainer in quite some time</li>
<li>hscolour is included as a tool, mostly as it is used to build the platform itself on win and mac... but we should probably officially decide to include it</li><li>the haskell-platform package itself is not in these releases... not sure if we actually need it as it doesn't contain anything other than dependencies.</li>
</ul></div><div>Windows</div><div><ul dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="margin-left:15px">The Haskell Platform now provides a native Windows 64-bit installation (haskell-platform issue <a href="https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/54" target="_blank">#54</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">All included packages built without --enable-split-objs (<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GHC-7.8-FAQ#Cabal" target="_blank">GHC 7.8 FAQ</a>)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">All included packages built without --enable-shared (GHC ticket <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8228" target="_blank">#8228</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">All html document links are relative and everything links nicely together now, including the master index and cross-package links</li><li style="margin-left:15px">If other Haskell Platform installations are detected during the installation of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0, a warning is displayed to the user that this is not recommended since problems will arise due to how the PATH is used in many cases to find ancillary build tools</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">Using ghci to build an executable that links against a DLL may result in numerous warnings about symbols (GHC ticket <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9297" target="_blank">#9297</a>)</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">On Windows 64-bit, some unneeded python files are included (GHC ticket <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9014" target="_blank">#9014</a>)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">The Haskell Platform for Windows, both 32-bit and 64-bit, now includes an updated version of the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) from the FreeGLUT project, utilizing the pre-built distribution from<a href="http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/" target="_blank">http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/freeglut-devel/</a> with the MinGW build (freeglut-MinGW-2.8.1-1.mp.zip). (haskell-platform issue <a href="https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/issues/81" target="_blank">#81</a>)</li>
</ul><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div></div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Mac OS X</div><div class="" style><ul style><li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Distributed with a build of 7.8.3 that differs from the released bindist in two ways: a) it was built split-objs for smaller resulting executables, b) it includes Cabal-1.18.1.4 which fixes a particularly nasty problem with haddock, -XCPP, and clang based systems. This ghc-7.8.3 bindist is available as well:</font></li>
<ul><li style><a href="http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/ghc-7.8.3-x86_64-apple-darwin-r3.tar.bz2">ghc-7.8.3-x86_64-apple-darwin-r3.tar.bz2</a><br></li></ul><li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">haddocks finally cross link between packages correctly</font></li>
<li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">includes a new experimental activate-hs command that can switch between multiple installed versions of the platform</font></li><li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">includes a slightly updated uninstall-hs command</font></li>
<li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">the cabal command is wrapped to provide a smoother file layout on the Mac... the wrapping only updates the ~/.cabal/config file the first time you run it.. please pay attention to its output - if you have a custom config file, you'll want to update it, as Cabal's defaults have changed</font></li>
<li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">works on 10.7 (tested), 10.8 (assumed!), 10.9 (tested) - both with gcc and clang based Xcode installs. (Next RC will support back to 10.6!)</font></li><li style><font face="arial, sans-serif">64bit only build this time... anyone still want the 32bit build?</font></li>
</ul><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Source tarball</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">Quite some changes from last time - notably now includes the new build machinery, not the old.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">The build machinery is well tested (see the travis-ci link above) from a repo... not tested much from a source repo</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">It isn't clear the source repo is of much interest... anyone need it? anyone need anything beyond the haskell-platform.cabal file in it?</font></li>
</ul><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Timetable</font></div><div><ul><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">These can "soak" amongst the intreped on these lists for 48 hours.</font></li><li><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Saturday, I'll release any needed updated RCs, and announce to a wider audience</font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif">End of next week (from my vacation, I'll point out), we'll declare success and ship.</font></li></ul></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">— Mark </font></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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