Windows installer 2010.2.0.0 RC1

[Claus Reinke]

> I've uploaded the 2010.2.0.0 release candidate installer to
>
> http://code.haskell.org/~refold/HaskellPlatform-2010.2.0.0-rc1-setup.exe
>
> Unless someone finds serious bugs in this RC, it can be released 
> unchanged.

> Known issues:
>
>   See http://trac.haskell.org/haskell-platform/wiki/Windows

Are you using the ghc-6.12.3 release or current daily snapshots?

The release has several documentation-related issues (on Windows,
at least), some of which might be fixed or fixable via snapshots (as
no further 6.12.x releases seem to be planned):

- ghc-pkg field * haddock-html doesn't work

    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4156
    (fixed July 4th, workaround would be to create an
    empty directory to run this command in, to neutralize
    the unwanted self-globbing)

- ghc-pkg field * haddock-html gives wrong results

    (eg, pointing to lib/base-4.2.0.2, while the html docs are
    in doc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.2/ )

- I'm sure I've encountered broken documentation links
    in installed haddock documentation (just one example:
    from the Data.Generics page, the link to
    Data.Generic.Schemes is broken, as the package id
    is missing in the link; while the link from the main
    index is correct)

    as well as missing linkage during cabal installs with
    'documentation: True' (eg, in my haskell-src-exts
    docs, there are no links for Bool/Maybe/String).

    For the former, there is a long-standing ticket about
    broken link testing

    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1574

    but it seems that the windows installer docs have
    package ids in the urls while the haskell.org docs
    (and the broken local links) do not.
    doc/html/libraries/syb-0.1.0.2%5CData-Generics-Schemes.html

Are these issues known? Do they apply to the HP RC?

More generally: what is the status of establishing a
proper testing process for Haskell platform releases?

Claus