gearing up for HP 2012.2.0.0

[Mikhail Glushenkov]

Hello Mark,

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks, it's time for HP 2012.2.0.0. I'll be your release manager this round,
> so sit up, get out those compilers and start building....
>
> [...]
>
> Prepare a trial-balloon package and version list. If you have specific
> requests, send 'em to me. I don't think we are anticipating any additions or
> drops this time 'round... though I understand that OpenGL may be a bit of
> problem. Any other package/version issues?

One question: are we going to use GHC 7.4.1 or wait for 7.4.2? There
was some talk about releasing 7.4.2 before June [1].

> Please think about getting your build procedure automated, documented, and
> in the repo. See, for example the README and Makefile for the mac build.
> Even where there are manual steps required (thank you Package Maker), the
> Makefile walks the builder though it.

Will do. In the meantime, sources of the Windows installer are
available on GitHub [2].

> Please let us/me know if there is any major planned change to the packaging.
> For example, last time I wrote an uninstaller for the Mac. This took some
> time, and I'd like to know what we're up against this time.

I don't plan to do any major changes to the Windows installer besides
fixing the long-standing partially missing documentation issue [3].


[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/21925
[2] https://github.com/23Skidoo/haskell-platform-windows
[3] http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ticket/176
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