X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=14265c5fa744d3a756a35b887674be511338cace;hb=70d359351d459248fd4abd832077c65f3be8487d;hp=7054beae68bca3529d86dfe748087f940cd3c287;hpb=a54d9c5e3bcc6613f06ee9bebbc46b255c12f2ca;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/README b/README index 7054bea..14265c5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,23 +1,23 @@ This is the root directory for functional-programming tools distributed by the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University. -Simon Peyton Jones is the ringleader of this +Simon Peyton Jones 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 + hdirect Haskell interop tool + green-card a foreign function interface pre-processor for Haskell. nofib the NoFib Haskell benchmarking suite literate the Glasgow "literate programming" system glafp-utils shared utility programs - mk GNU make setup used by all the fptools + 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 "mk" (a configuration -system). +Components which are always part of a distribution (never stand-alone) +are "glafp-utils" and "mk" (a configuration system). There is usually an ANNOUNCE* file with any distribution. Please consult that, or the /README file, to find out how to proceed.