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athas committed Oct 4, 2017
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Installing from a precompiled snapshot
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We do not yet have any proper releases as such, but every day a
program automatically clones the Git repository, builds the compiler,
and packages a simple tarball containing the resulting binaries, built
manpages, and a simple ``Makefile`` for installing. The implication
is that these tarballs are not vetted in any way, nor more stable than
Git HEAD at any particular moment in time. They are provided merely
for users who are unable or unwilling to compile Futhark themselves.
Tarballs of binary releases can be `found online
<https://futhark-lang.org/releases/>`_, but are available only for
very few platforms (as of this writing, only GNU/Linux on x86_64).

Furthermore, every day a program automatically clones the Git
repository, builds the compiler, and packages a simple tarball
containing the resulting binaries, built manpages, and a simple
``Makefile`` for installing. The implication is that these tarballs
are not vetted in any way, nor more stable than Git HEAD at any
particular moment in time. They are provided for users who wish to
use the most recent code, but are unable to compile Futhark
themselves.

At the moment, we build such snapshots only for a single operating
system:
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`futhark-nightly-linux-x86_64.tar.xz <https://futhark-lang.org/releases/futhark-nightly-linux-x86_64.tar.xz>`_

In time, we hope to make snapshots available for more platforms, but
we are limited by system availability. We also intend to make proper
releases once the language matures.
we are limited by system availability.

.. _`Haskell tool stack`: http://docs.haskellstack.org/
.. _`installing Stack`: http://docs.haskellstack.org/#how-to-install
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