[project @ 2002-07-01 15:16:33 by simonmar]

[ghc-hetmet.git] / ghc / ANNOUNCE

diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE
index 3199ecc..4f0e1cf 100644 (file)
--- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE
@@ -41,16 +41,13 @@ The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
 
 We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
 flavours of Linux and BSD, and in InstallShield form for Windows
-folks.  Everybody else gets a .tar.gz which can be installed where you
-want.
+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.
 
 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
 README file to find all of the documentation about this release.
 
-The source distribution is freely available via the World-Wide Web,
-under a BSD-style license.  See below for download details.  Pre-built
-packages for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Win32 are also available.
-
 
 More details about what's new
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -110,7 +107,8 @@ 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).
+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,
@@ -137,25 +135,26 @@ 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, GNU C
+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,freebsd,mingw32}
+  * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
   * sparc-sun-solaris2
+  * alpha-dec-osf3
+  * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X)
 
 Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
 wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
 
   * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
   * i386-unknown-solaris2
-  * alpha-dec-osf{2,3}
   * mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
   * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
 
 The builder's guide included in distribution gives a complete
 run-down of what ports work; an on-line version can be found at
 
-   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/5.02/building/building-guide.html
+   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/building/building-guide.html