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3 The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2.2
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6 The GHC Team is pleased to announce the latest patchlevel release of
7 GHC, 6.2.2. This is a bugfix release only, there are no new features.
8 Code that worked with 6.2.1 will work unchanged with 6.2.2.
10 A lot of bugfixes have gone into 6.2.2; we believe it is one of the
11 most stable releases of GHC ever. Thanks to everyone who has been
12 involved in testing pre-releases and submitting bug reports.
14 This will also be the last release along the 6.2 branch, the next
15 release (out "soon") will be 6.4 with plenty of new features.
19 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
21 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
23 We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
24 flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form
25 for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available
26 as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source
27 distribution is also available from the same place.
29 Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
30 system isn't available yet, please try again later.
34 Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
35 current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
36 revised December 2002.
38 GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
39 an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
40 platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
41 development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
42 facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
43 language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
44 language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
45 BSD-style open source license.
47 A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
48 specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
49 contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
50 Haskell home page (see below).
53 On-line GHC-related resources
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56 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
58 GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
59 Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
60 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
66 To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC
67 and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
69 * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
71 * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
73 Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
74 difficulty. The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete
75 run-down of what ports work and how to go about porting to a new
76 platform; it can be found at
78 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html
83 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
86 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
87 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
89 There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
90 www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
92 http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
94 Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at
96 http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
98 or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
100 GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding
101 edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.