Release news and generic source installer RC

[Duncan Coutts]

Hi all,

So we've slightly slipped the release but if all goes well then Don will
make the release tomorrow while I'm away at FITA[1].

In the mean time here is RC1 for the generic source installer:
http://haskell.org/~duncan/haskell-platform-2009.1.1.tar.gz

We're collecting results at:
http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki#TestingSignoff

Also, a preview of the download page which we will put up at
haskell.org/download:
http://www.galois.com/~dons/packages/index.html

The text of that page is in the main haskell-platform darcs repo in
download-website/index.markdown. So do feel free to darcs send your
suggestions for Don to apply.

Mikhail: can you confirm for Don whether the existing .exe RC can just
be renamed to the final, or do you need to do a rebuild to update
internal strings too?

Duncan

[1] http://sneezy.cs.nott.ac.uk/fun/