The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.01
	    ==============================================

We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 3.01.  The source distribution is freely
available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.

Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997.  Haskell
related information is available from the Haskell home page at

	http://haskell.org/

+ What's new
=============

GHC 3.01 is a source-only release.  Major news items:

	* Lots of bug-fixes for the mult-parameter type class support.

	* Re-organisation of libraries, and hslibs nuked. (see the
	  release notes/documentation for the full story).

	* The User's Guide is now in SGML, and the literate tools are
	  no longer required to format any of the documentation in the
	  tree, hence we removed them from the distribution.

+ Mailing lists
================

We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:

    subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>

Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk


+ On-line GHC-related resources
================================

Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:

GHC home page    	  http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
Haskell home page	  http://haskell.org/
Glasgow FP group page     http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
comp.lang.functional FAQ  http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html


+ How to get it
================

The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
self-explanatory:

	http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/

Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release.  NB:
preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
for tar, please)!


+ System requirements
======================

To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (version
2.10 at least). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:

  * alpha-dec-osf{2,3}
  * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
  * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
  * mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
  * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
  * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix

Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort.  The installer's
guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
an on-line version can be found at

   http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.01/installation_guide/installing_toc.html

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