Simon Peyton Jones
-Dated: February 1997
+Dated: March 1997
Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
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-How to get GHC 2.01:
+How to get GHC 2.02:
This release is available by anonymous FTP from the main Haskell
archive sites, in the directory pub/haskell/glasgow:
These are the available files (.gz files are gzipped) -- some are `on
demand', ask if you don't see them:
-ghc-2.01-src.tar.gz The source distribution; about 3MB.
+ghc-2.02-src.tar.gz The source distribution; about 3MB.
-ghc-2.01.ANNOUNCE This file.
+ghc-2.02.ANNOUNCE This file.
-ghc-2.01.{README,RELEASE-NOTES} From the distribution; for those who
+ghc-2.02.{README,RELEASE-NOTES} From the distribution; for those who
want to peek before FTPing...
-ghc-2.01-ps-docs.tar.gz Main GHC documents in PostScript format; in
+ghc-2.02-ps-docs.tar.gz Main GHC documents in PostScript format; in
case your TeX setup doesn't agree with our
DVI files...
-ghc-2.01-<platform>.tar.gz Basic binary distribution for a particular
+ghc-2.02-<platform>.tar.gz Basic binary distribution for a particular
<platform>. Unpack and go: you can compile
and run Haskell programs with nothing but one
of these files. NB: does *not* include
i386-unknown-freebsd
i386-unknown-linux
i386-unknown-solaris2
+ i386-unknown-cygwin32
m68k-sun-sunos4
mips-sgi-irix5
sparc-sun-sunos4
sparc-sun-solaris2
-ghc-2.01-<bundle>-<platform>.tar.gz
+ghc-2.02-<bundle>-<platform>.tar.gz
<platform> ==> as above
<bundle> ==> prof (profiling)
prof-conc (profiling for "conc[urrent]")
prof-ticky (ticky for "conc[urrent]")
-ghc-2.01-hc-files.tar.gz Basic set of intermediate C (.hc) files for the
+ghc-2.02-hc-files.tar.gz Basic set of intermediate C (.hc) files for the
compiler proper, the prelude, and `Hello,
world'. Used for bootstrapping the system.
About 4MB.
-ghc-2.01-<bundle>-hc-files.tar.gz Further sets of .hc files, for
+ghc-2.02-<bundle>-hc-files.tar.gz Further sets of .hc files, for
building other "bundles", e.g., profiling.
-ghc-2.01-hi-files-<blah>.tar.gz Sometimes it's more convenient to
+ghc-2.02-hi-files-<blah>.tar.gz Sometimes it's more convenient to
use a different set of interface files than
the ones in *-src.tar.gz. (The installation
guide will advise you of this.)