[Haskell-cafe] Announce: Haskell Platform 8.0.1

On behalf of the Haskell Platform team, I'm happy to announce the release of Haskell Platform 8.0.1 Now available at https://www.haskell.org/platform/ This platform includes features initially planned in the "Improving the 'Get Haskell Experience'" proposal of June 2015. [1] * Minimal as well as Full distributions. The minimal distribution only includes GHC core libraries as well as additional tools. This is now the recommended distribution. The Full distribution remains an option for those who want a one-step installer with the broader set of platform libraries preinstalled. * Inclusion of the Stack tool for developing Haskell projects [2] Other highlights of this release include the following * The new cabal 1.24 including the great "new-build" tech preview of nix-like build dependency management [3] * On windows, a cabal/msys setup that allows packages such as "network" to build "out of the box". (almost*) * At long last, prebuilt Linux 32 bit platform installers Changes to Contents: * Some packages have been removed from the installed packages set (both minimal and full) including old-locale, old-time, cgi, and the transitive cgi dependencies: transformers-compat, multipart, and exceptions. * fixed has been added to the platform as a transitive dependency of GLUT. 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 putting together such an exciting new compiler release! A fuller list of new GHC changes is available at: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2016-May/012098.html A fuller list of new cabal changes is available at: http://coldwa.st/e/blog/2016-05-04-Cabal-1-24.html Happy Haskell Hacking all, Gershom [1] http://projects.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-platform/2015-July/003129.html [2] http://haskellstack.org [3] http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/05/announcing-cabal-new-build-nix-style-local-builds/ * To build "network" and other msys-dependent packages on windows, you will need to augment your cabal config file with the following lines: extra-prog-path: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\msys\usr\bin extra-lib-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\lib extra-include-dirs: C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\8.0.1\mingw\include