1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.10
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.10. Source and Binary distribution is freely
6 available 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
17 Release 2.10 is a full binary release (at least for the platforms we
18 have access to, other builds are solicited). We hope this will be a
19 solid release - barring any unforseen problems this should be the end
22 Major new things in this release:
24 * better -fwarn-overlapping-patterns checking,
27 The next release will likely be GHC 3.00, containing mult-parameter
28 type classes amongst other things. As of the next release, we will no
29 longer support building with GHC 0.29.
31 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the GHC Team!
36 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
37 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
39 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
41 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
42 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
45 + On-line GHC-related resources
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48 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
50 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
51 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
52 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
53 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
59 The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
62 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
64 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
65 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
66 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
71 ======================
73 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
74 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
75 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
78 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
79 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
81 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
82 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
84 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
85 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
86 an on-line version can be found at
88 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html