-flavours of Linux and BSD, and in InstallShield form for Windows
-folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available as a .tar.gz
-which can be installed wherever you want. The source distribution is
-also available from the same place.
-
-Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
-README file to find all of the documentation about this release.
-
-
-More details about what's new
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-5.02 incorporates many small refinements and bug fixes over the previous
-stable release (5.00.2). There are no major language changes.
-
- - Implements Haskell 98 (revised)
-
- - Ability to emit External Core. (But GhC can't read External Core
- back in. Yet.)
-
- - Much improved support for Windows platforms. Binary builds are
- now entirely freestanding. There's no need to install Cygwin or
- Mingwin to use it. It's a one-click-install-and-off-you-go story now.
-
- - Several small changes to bring GHC into line with the newest Haskell 98
- report.
-
- - GHCi (the interactive system) now works on Windows.
-
- - Partial FFI support in GHCi. At the moment, foreign import (both
- static and dynamic) is supported on x86 and sparc platforms.
-
- - A compacting garbage collector, to try and reduce space use.
+flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form
+for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available
+as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source
+distribution is also available from the same place.