X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fusers_guide%2Fintro.xml;h=e219f9020cacf04b175e55e58790e81d7980b68d;hb=1bf40a4b38180b8b1c1bdaf4919bc327d5b27abe;hp=fdd3271753d00288653fc7913f3f93ecc9333141;hpb=9815cf7659c4d2a6445a58c2f57409dad65b46f3;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml index fdd3271..e219f90 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/intro.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/intro.xml @@ -35,16 +35,31 @@ possible while not making too much effort to optimise the generated code (although GHC probably isn't what you'd describe as a fast compiler :-). - + GHC's profiling system supports “cost centre stacks”: a way of seeing the profile of a Haskell program in a call-graph like structure. See for more details. - GHC comes with a large collection of libraries, with - everything from parser combinators to networking. The libraries are + GHC comes with a number of libraries. These are described in separate documentation. + + Obtaining GHC + + Go to the GHC home + page and follow the "download" link to download GHC + for your platform. + + Alternatively, if you want to build GHC yourself, head on + over to the + GHC + Building Guide 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. + + Meta-information: Web sites, mailing lists, etc. @@ -56,24 +71,18 @@ - Haskell home - page - - - GHC home page - comp.lang.functional - FAQ + GHC + Developers Home (developer documentation, wiki, and + bug tracker) - - We run the following mailing lists about Glasgow Haskell. + We run the following mailing lists about GHC. We encourage you to join, as you feel is appropriate. @@ -83,7 +92,7 @@ This list is for GHC users to chat among themselves. If you have a specific question about GHC, please check the FAQ + url="http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC/FAQ">FAQ first. @@ -95,7 +104,7 @@ - subscribe at: + subscribe at: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users. @@ -123,9 +132,9 @@ glasgow-haskell-bugs: - 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. + This list is for reporting and discussing GHC bugs. + However, please see before + posting here. @@ -136,7 +145,7 @@ - subscribe at: + subscribe at: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs. @@ -154,7 +163,7 @@ list archives: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/ + url="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/">http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/ @@ -165,12 +174,11 @@ cvs-ghc: 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. cvs-hslibs, - cvs-happy, cvs-hdirect - etc.) - + also gets commit message from the GHC darcs repository. There are + other lists for other darcs + repositories (most notably cvs-libraries). + + list email address: @@ -180,7 +188,7 @@ - subscribe at: + subscribe at: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc. @@ -265,7 +273,7 @@ - + Stable snapshots @@ -330,7 +338,7 @@ - + The version number of your copy of GHC can be found by invoking ghc with the ––version flag (see -&relnotes; +&relnotes1;