Release news and generic source installer RC

[Don Stewart]

Still waiting on an account on haskell.org, should be completed later
today (US time).

Except 2009.2.0 in the next 24 hours.

(And it is a good time to get started on ensuring your distro supports
the platform!)

-- Don

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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