- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08
- ==============================================
+ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08
+ ==============================================
We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
Compiler (GHC), version 4.08. The source distribution is freely
-available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
+available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP, under a
+BSD-style license. See below for download details. Pre-built
+packages for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Win32 are also available.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
-Haskell related information is available from the Haskell home page at
- http://www.haskell.org/
+GHC is a state-of-the-art optimising compiler for Haskell, generating
+good code for a variety of platforms. 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, C++, whatever).
+
+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 at
+
+ http://www.haskell.org/
GHC's Web page lives at
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
+ What's new
=============
For full details see the release notes:
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/users_guide/release-4-08.html
-
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/set/release-4-08.html
+ Mailing lists
================
-We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
-mail to majordomo@haskell.org; the msg body should be:
+We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
+the web interfaces at
- subscribe glasgow-haskell-{users,bugs} Your Name <you@where.soever>
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
-or
+There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
+www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
- subscribe cvs-ghc Your Name <you@where.soever>
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
Please send bug reports about GHC 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.
-
+ 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/
+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
-
+ How to get it
================
The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
self-explanatory:
- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
for tar, please)!
-
+ System requirements
======================
-To compile the sources, you need a machine with 32+MB memory, GNU C
-(`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (3.02 at least). This
-release is known to work on the following platforms:
+To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 32+MB memory, GNU C
+and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
* i386-unknown-{linux,freebsd,netbsd,cygwin32,mingw32}
- * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
+ * sparc-sun-solaris2
* hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a