This is the root directory for functional-programming tools
distributed by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University.
-Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> is the ringleader
-of this effort. The tools are:
+Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@dcs.gla.ac.uk> is the ringleader of this
+effort. The tools are:
ghc the Glasgow Haskell compilation system
+ hslibs collection of Haskell libraries
haggis the Haggis GUI toolkit
happy the Happy Haskell parser generator
+ green-card a foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell.
nofib the NoFib Haskell benchmarking suite
literate the Glasgow "literate programming" system
- mkworld configuration system (derived from X11 imake)
glafp-utils shared utility programs
+ mk GNU make setup used by all of fptools
+ docs documentation on the installing and using
+ the fptools suite.
The "literate" stuff is usually distributed *with* other systems, but
not necessarily. Components which are always part of a distribution
-(never stand-alone) are "glafp-utils" and "mkworld" (a configuration
+(never stand-alone) are "glafp-utils" and "mk" (a configuration
system).
There is usually an ANNOUNCE* file with any distribution. Please