[Haskell-cafe] Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.2

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.0.2 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This includes GHC 8.0.2, cabal-install 1.24.0.2, and stack 1.3.2, all with many bugfixes and improvements since the last platform release. This platform release we've cleaned up the webpage a bit, and renamed the "minimal" distribution to the "core" distribution to highlight that it is the recommended approach (and simplified the accompanying text). A number of improvements have been made to the windows installer -- notably the /S option for silent install is now in fully working order, and we have the flags /STACK and /D (for stack and platform-ghc install paths). The installer expects no quoting of paths, even with spaces within the paths, like so: HaskellPlatform-8.0.2-full-x86_64-setup.exe /S /STACK=c:\My install path for stack\local\bin /D=c:\program files\Haskell\Platform\8.0.2 There is also an updated version of msys2 included, which includes pacman, et al. to ease the installation of libraries with more complex foreign dependencies. Changes to Contents: * As a result of transitive dependencies of platform packages, the integer-logarithms and call-stack packages have been added to the full platform. A full list of contents is available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/contents.html Thanks to all the contributors to this release, thanks to all the package and tool maintainers and authors, and a big thanks to the GHC team for all their hard work. A list of new GHC changes is available at: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/ghc-8.0.2-released A list of cabal changes is available at: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-install-1.24.0.2/changelog The new cabal documentation page is at: https://cabal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ A list of stack changes is at: https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/ChangeLog/ Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom (Note -- one feature we have not implemented yet for the platform but would like to is a generic linux installer that allows one to set a custom location and does not require root. Anyone who would like to volunteer to help with this, please get in touch!)