HTTP and network in 2009.2.0.2

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sun, 2009-07-19 at 05:00 +0000, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I see that the haskell-platform.cabal file wasn't updated yet for
> the 2009.2.0.2 release. Are we going to include new versions of
> network and HTTP?

Don and I discussed the updated. I've updated the wiki and I'll update
the .cabal file in just a sec.

http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/2009.2

Basically, the changes for 2009.2.0.2 are to update GHC to 6.10.4 and to
use the latest network bug-fix release. No other changes.

However since the extra-lib builds of ghc-6.10.4 include different
versions of network and time than what we are specifying for 2009.2.0.2
then we have to decide what to do. What we have decided that for
platforms where we ship the entire kaboodle (ie win, osx, distros,
everything except the generic unix installer) that we will nuke the
existing versions where they differ.

Specifically: ghc-6.10.4 includes time-1.1.3 and network-2.2.1.2 but we
will be shipping time-1.1.2.4 and network-2.2.1.3. So if you start from
a ghc-6.10.4 build which includes those other versions then remove them
before building the new versions. We do not want to distribute two
versions.

For the generic unix installer we assume the machine has ghc-6.10.4
already. If time-1.1.3 and network-2.2.1.2 are present then we will
ghc-pkg hide them and install the platform versions.

Duncan