Release news and generic source installer RC

[Don Stewart]

I've updated the release page,

   http://www.galois.com/~dons/packages/

Check it out and comment (does it make it clear why you should install
the platform?).

And all tickets are now closed that were blocking the release.

Generic unix tarballs and the win32 installer are tested and ready to go.

The final step now is to create haskell.org/download and upload the
tar.gz, .exe, .cabal and checksums, alongside the download page.

-- Don

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Duncan Coutts
<duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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