1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.05
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.05. Source distribution is freely available
6 via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
18 Release 2.05 represent work done through July '97. no changes at the
19 language or library level with respect to 2.04, but quite a few bug fixes
20 and several of the front passes in the compiler has been reworked
26 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
27 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
29 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
31 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
32 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
35 + On-line GHC-related resources
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38 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
40 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
41 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
42 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
43 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
49 The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
52 ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
54 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
55 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
56 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
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63 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
64 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
65 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
68 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
69 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
71 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
72 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
74 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
75 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
76 an on-line version can be found at
78 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html