X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FANNOUNCE;h=4df3c97596823322840ba5cb72c0c3afbb91abeb;hb=92cdc09e48d3410182581f5bd687d1ee7cbe476b;hp=3199eccc39f65c488077e45e9e08ab0306a62bff;hpb=a9429ca7251683af223eb28460668d4bb0391535;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index 3199ecc..4df3c97 100644 --- 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,