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- The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4
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-
-The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. It
-has been a long time since the last major release (Dec 2003!), and a
-lot has happened:
-
- - GADTs (Generalised Abstract Datatypes) are supported
-
- - STM (Software Transactional Memory) is implemented
-
- - Full support for Cabal and a much improved package framework
-
- - Better support for mutually-recursive modules
-
- - A complete rewrite of the back end
-
- - Accurate source locations in error messages
-
- - Lots of new libraries
-
-The full release notes are here:
-
- http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4/html/users_guide/release-6-4.html
-
-How to get it
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
-
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
-
-We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
-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.
-
-Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
-system isn't available yet, please try again later.
-
-
-
-Background
-~~~~~~~~~~
-Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
-current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
-revised December 2002.
-
-GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. Included is
-an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
-platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
-development. The distribution includes space and time profiling
-facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
-language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
-language interfaces (C, whatever). GHC is distributed under a
-BSD-style open source license.
-
-A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
-specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
-contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
-Haskell home page (see below).
-
-
-On-line GHC-related resources
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
-
-GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
-Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
-comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
-
-
-
-System requirements
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC
-and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
-
- * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
- * sparc-sun-solaris2
- * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
- * powerpc-apple-linux
-
-Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
-difficulty. The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete
-run-down of what ports work and how to go about porting to a new
-platform; it can be found at
-
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/
-
-
-Mailing lists
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
-the web interfaces at
-
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
-
-There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
-www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
-
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
-
-Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at
-
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
-
-or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
-
-GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding
-edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.
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