package versions for 2012.2.0.0

[Chris Dornan]

Folks,

I have been preparing a 2012.2.0.0 distro for RHEL/SL/CentOS 5/6 and Fedora Core 16 and have working copies which I am testing. (Note this is a Just Hub distro[1], structured quite differently form the Fedora one, but can be deployed alongside it.) I expect to have betas up over the weekend. (The EL5 and EL6 releases are up already but may be tweaked yet.)

I had to make some changes to the pre-release branch (which could be pulled from https://github.com/cdornan/haskell-platform/tree/pre-release):

	* src/generic/tarball/packages/core.packages (also NOTES-2012.2.0.0):

		renamed haskell2000 => haskell2010
		removed random
		removed Win32

	* src/generic/tarball/configure.ac

		top definitions updated for 2012.2.0.0/7.4.1

Other than that I have bumped xhtml to the just-released xhtml-3000.2.1. As the version number indicates this is a modest widening of the API from 3000.2.0.5 to fix a hole (see the libraries mailing list).

The only issue I have encountered is with GLUT. GLUT-2.1.2.1 built with GHC-7.4.1  seems to have lost the ability to link programs without being told which libraries to use (-lHSGLUT-2.1.2.1 -lglut). 2.1.2.1 works fine with 7.0.4 for me, as does 2.3.0.0 with 7.4.1 but not 2.1.2.1 built with 7.4.1. I haven't had the opportunity to look any further at this. 

Chris

[1] http://justhub.org


-----Original Message-----
From: haskell-platform-bounces at projects.haskell.org [mailto:haskell-platform-bounces at projects.haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wright
Sent: 10 May 2012 08:12
To: Jens Petersen; Joachim Breitner
Cc: haskell-platform at projects.haskell.org
Subject: Re: package versions for 2012.2.0.0

On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:58:02 +0900, Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 May 2012 06:43, Joachim Breitner <nomeata at debian.org> wrote:
> >>    mtl                     2.0.1.0    --> 2.1.1
> >
> > I just noticed that many package on hackage do not build with 
> > mtl-2.1.1 yet, lots of red entries on 
> > http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/mtl
> 
> Yes, I tend to agree, and by implication the same applies also for 
> transformers-0.3.
> 
> Fedora development is also still on mtl-2.0 and transformers-0.2.2.
> 
> Though maybe it is partly also a "chicken and egg" kind of problem?
> 
> Jens

I think that the haskell platform should use the current versions mtl 2.1.1 and transformers 0.3.0.0.

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Thanks, Mark