- * GHC 2.02 is available for Win32 platforms. From now on, Win32
- (Windows NT and Windows 95) will be a fully supported platform
- for GHC.
-
- * GHC 2.02 supports full cross module inlining. Unlike 0.29 and
- its predecessors, inlining can happen even if the inlined body
- mentions a function or type that is not itself exported. This is
- one place Haskell 1.4's new module system really pays off.
-
- * Like 2.01, GHC 2.02 aborts a compilation if it decides that
- nothing that the module imports *and acually uses* has changed.
- This decision is now taken by the compiler itself, rather than
- by a Perl script (as in 2.01) which sometimes got it wrong.
-
- * The ghc/lib libraries are much more systematically organised.
-
- * There's a completely new "make" system. This will mainly affect people
- who want the source distribution, who will hopefully find it much, much,
- easier than grappling with the old Jmakefiles. Even for binary
- installation, the procedure is a little simpler, though.
-
-Please see the release notes for a complete discussion of What's New.
-
-To run this release, you need a machine with 16+MB memory (more if
-building from sources), GNU C (`gcc'), and `perl'. We have seen GHC
-2.01 work on these platforms: alpha-dec-osf2, hppa1.1-hp-hpux9,
-sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}, mips-sgi-irix5, and
-i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}. Similar platforms
-should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's guide give a
-complete run-down of what-ports-work.
-
-Binaries are distributed in `bundles', e.g. a "profiling bundle" or a
-"concurrency bundle" for your platform. Just grab the ones you need.
-
-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)!
-
-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:
-
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-
-Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk.
-
-Simon Peyton Jones
-
-Dated: March 1997