X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FANNOUNCE;h=24060c98ba9ea1c59e9688dc2fccbb1a7236acfd;hb=cab3c5cb1a0038412472172cb0b25bc81dfdde8f;hp=bf466ff2a2604a007bc815b480c9a3a86c504ce4;hpb=08a58bedccd06f08617836fd1d9214f9119d86c4;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index bf466ff..24060c9 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,99 +1,65 @@ - The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.00 + ============================================================ + The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04 ============================================================ We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell -Compiler (GHC), version 5.00. The source distribution is freely -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 a standard lazy functional programming language; the -current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998. - -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, 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/ - - - - What's new -============ - -5.00 has been majorly revamped since the previous stable version, 4.08.2. -This should be a stable release. Major changes since 4.08.2 are: - - - An interactive system, similar in style to Hugs. You can interactively - load and unload modules, run expressions, ask the types of things. - Module dependencies are tracked and chased automatically. - Combinations of compiled and interpreted modules may be used. - All the GHC libraries are available in interactive mode, as are - most of the Glasgow extensions to Haskell 98. Compilation in - interactive mode is fast enough to be useful. +Compiler (GHC), version 5.04. - - Batch compilation of multiple modules at once, with automatic - dependency chasing. For large programs this can halve compilation - times, and removes the need for Makefiles. +Highlights include: - - Enhanced package (library) management system. Packages may be - installed and removed from an installation using the ghc-pkg tool. + * Hierarchical libraries, with documentation produced by Haddock. - - Initial Unicode support - the Char type is now 31 bits. + * New type system extensions: full rank-N types and kind + annotations. + + * New heap profiling facilities (retainer profiling, biographical + profiling). - - Sparc native code generator, giving much faster compilation on sparcs. - (Native code generation for x86s has been available for a while). + * MacOS X support - - Improved heap profiling - you can restrict heap profiles - by type, closure description, cost centre, and module. +See the release notes for a full list of the changes: - - Support for the latest Foreign Function Interface (FFI) - proposals. + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/release-5-04.html - - A language extension: parallel list comprehensions. - - The usual vast stack of bug fixes. Most reported bugs have been - fixed. +How to get it +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory: -For full details see the release notes: - - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/5.00/set/release-5-00.html - - - - How to get it -=============== + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ -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 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. - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ +Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your +system isn't available yet, please try again later. -We supply binary builds in .rpm/.deb form for all you Linux junkies -out there, and in InstallShield form for Windows folks. Everybody -else gets a .tar.gz which can be installed where you want. +Background +~~~~~~~~~~ +Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the +current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998. -Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the -README file to find all of the documentation about this release. +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 -=============================== +On-line GHC-related resources +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: @@ -103,34 +69,32 @@ 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 32+MB memory, GNU C +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,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 +The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what +ports work; it can be found at - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/5.00/building/building-guide.html + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html - - Mailing lists -=============== - +Mailing lists +~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use the web interfaces at @@ -142,6 +106,12 @@ www.haskell.org; for the full list, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ -Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org; +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. +