call-graph like structure. See <xref linkend="profiling"/> for more
details.</para>
- <para>GHC comes with a large collection of libraries, with
- everything from parser combinators to networking. The libraries are
+ <para>GHC comes with a number of libraries. These are
described in separate documentation.</para>
+ <sect1 id="getting">
+ <title>Obtaining GHC</title>
+
+ <para>Go to the <ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC home
+ page</ulink> and follow the "download" link to download GHC
+ for your platform.</para>
+
+ <para>Alternatively, if you want to build GHC yourself, head on
+ over to the
+ <ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building">GHC
+ Building Guide</ulink> to find out how to get the sources, and
+ build it on your system. Note that GHC itself is written in
+ Haskell, so you will still need to install GHC in order to
+ build it.</para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="mailing-lists-GHC">
<title>Meta-information: Web sites, mailing lists, etc.</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/" >Haskell home
- page</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
<para><ulink url="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">GHC home
page</ulink></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><ulink
- url="http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html">comp.lang.functional
- FAQ</ulink></para>
+ <para><ulink url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/">GHC
+ Developers Home</ulink> (developer documentation, wiki, and
+ bug tracker)</para>
</listitem>
-
</itemizedlist>
- <para>We run the following mailing lists about Glasgow Haskell.
+ <para>We run the following mailing lists about GHC.
We encourage you to join, as you feel is appropriate.</para>
<variablelist>
<para>This list is for GHC users to chat among themselves.
If you have a specific question about GHC, please check the
<ulink
- url="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/FAQ">FAQ</ulink>
+ url="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/FAQ">FAQ</ulink>
first.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>glasgow-haskell-bugs:</term>
<listitem>
- <para>Send bug reports for GHC to this address! The sad and
- lonely people who subscribe to this list will muse upon
- what's wrong and what you might do about it.</para>
+ <para>This list is for reporting and discussing GHC bugs.
+ However, please see <xref linkend="bug-reporting" /> before
+ posting here.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>list archives:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink
- url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/</literal></ulink></para>
+ url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/"><literal>http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/</literal></ulink></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
<varlistentry>
<term>cvs-ghc:</term>
<listitem>
<para>The hardcore GHC developers hang out here. This list
- also gets commit message from the CVS repository. There are
- several other similar lists for other parts of the CVS
- repository (eg. <literal>cvs-hslibs</literal>,
- <literal>cvs-happy</literal>, <literal>cvs-hdirect</literal>
- etc.)</para>
+ also gets commit message from the GHC darcs repository. There are
+ other lists for other darcs
+ repositories (most notably <literal>cvs-libraries</literal>).
+ </para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
</sect1>
-&relnotes;
+&relnotes1;
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