Updated package list for major release
Duncan Coutts
duncan.coutts at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 10 23:51:59 BST 2011
Hi all,
Thanks for responding to my question about what we should do for this
next release. So the plan is a major release using ghc-7.0.4 and bumping
all the packages to the latest versions (where possible).
So I've updated the haskell-platform.cabal file based on what looks like
the latest sensible versions.
I've moved the darcs repo back to:
http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/
Here are the version changes:
ghc 7.0.3 --> 7.0.4
fgl 5.4.2.3 --> 5.4.2.4
HUnit 1.2.2.3 --> 1.2.4.2
network 2.3.0.2 --> 2.3.0.5
QuickCheck 2.4.0.1 --> 2.4.1.1
regex-compat 0.93.1 --> 0.95.1
regex-posix 0.94.4 --> 0.95.1
syb 0.3 --> 0.3.3
xhtml 3000.2.0.1 --> 3000.2.0.4
HTTP 4000.1.1 --> 4000.1.2
text 0.11.0.6 --> 0.11.1.5
Some packages are not updated to their latest hackage versions:
* cgi: latest versions depend on MonadCatchIO-mtl which is not in
the platform.
* OpenGL, GLUT: later versions depend on ObjectName, StateVar,
Tensor which are not in the platform.
* deepseq: latest version of parallel requires a slightly older
version of deepseq
* alex: latest alex is the very new version 3 which makes new
assumption that everything is utf8. I don't think things have
been tested with this yet and some things are bound to break.
Obviously there are also all the core packages. We have to stick with
the versions of the core packages that come with ghc 7.0.4, e.g. Cabal.
(That said, I could release a newer cabal-install that builds against
the version of Cabal that comes with 7.0.4.)
Comments?
Duncan
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