HP 2015.2.0.0 and GHC 7.10

[Mark Lentczner]

there is a bindist for 7.10 RC3 - right alongside the HP I built.
I'm the builder for the bindists for GHC of OS X - not sure why Austin
never put it on the GHC site.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:51 PM, George Colpitts <george.colpitts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks for doing this, AFAIK there is no bindist for 7.10.3 on the Mac. I
> downloaded and installed it, works great. I used it to install hlint and
> criterion. The only issue I saw was that uninstall didn't remove ghc
> executables of older versions that I had in /usr/local/bin (earlier bindist
> of 7.10.1rc2). Looking forward to using next version for 7.10.1 final
>
> Thanks again
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:13 AM, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've gone ahead and built a very provisional, alpha version of 2015.2.0.0
>> using GHC 7.10 RC3.
>>
>> I bumped all the GHC libs to the versions in 7.10, and bumped all the
>> Platform libs to the latest versions I could find on Hackage. There were a
>> few issues:
>>
>>    - *old-locale and old-time* - no longer part of GHC, but
>>    cabal-install, cgi & HTTP need them - and they are part of the platform -
>>    so included now as added packages. Not sure this is a great idea, since
>>    they are now very deprecated... but until cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP
>>    update, not sure what else to do.
>>    - *tf-random* - is now required by alex and QuickCheck - seems a
>>    shame to add this, as now we're going to have two random packages
>>    - *network-uri *- was split out of network, and needed by
>>    cabal-install, cgi, & HTTP. I suppose we should include it, as it was
>>    functionality and API that was part of the platform
>>    - *exceptions* & *multipart* - needed by cgi - is exceptions now
>>    subsumed by something in transformers? and... multipart? maybe time to drop
>>    cgi? We didn't have it last time anyway as it wouldn't compile!
>>    - *scientific* - needed by attoparsec - debated in detail last time
>>    ... and we're still here!
>>
>> The Platform is significantly larger now: On OS X it has gone from 316M
>> to 499M! Most of this is due to new OpenGL libs which are now huge (went
>> from 98M to 239M!) GHC itself grew by 109M (to almost 1G), so that the
>> whole installed magilla is 1.5G! Even the compressed installer is now 250M!
>>
>> If you want to poke at it, the source is in the pre-release branch at
>> GitHub <https://github.com/haskell/haskell-platform/tree/pre-release>,
>> and the OS X builds are at my usual platform staging area:
>>
>> Index of /mark/platform <http://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/platform/>
>>
>>
>> Remember, it already includes GHC, so no need to download the GHC binary
>> for OS X that is there, too.
>>
>> I'll try to get a generic linux build up soonish... but my VM now runs
>> out of memory trying to build OpenGL - and adding more only makes my
>> machine thrash to death!
>>
>> - Mark
>>
>>
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