X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=24dec9311e93e2866fddfda0461470a4e6bef38d;hb=29e55dea299569979d4e73d64b709a97aaea36e8;hp=d055879054641411dda203c044e49b71caf6fde1;hpb=1c2229f264bdfb86d1788d9f87ffe93c3801aa94;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index d055879..24dec93 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,42 +1,79 @@ -This is version 3.02 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation -system (GHC). GHC 3.02 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4. +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler +============================ + +(this file is fptools/ghc/README in a source distribution, and +fptools/README in a binary distribution). + +GHC is a batch compiler for Haskell 98. See the file ANNOUNCE for +information on the current version. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language. -Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in -April 1997. The language definition is on the Web at -http://www.haskell.org/report/index.html. +Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in +December 1998. The language definition is on the Web at +http://www.haskell.org/definition/. + +More information on GHC can be found on its web page -GHC documentation of interest: + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ -* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and - install the system. +Documentation +============= - The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format - (.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to - plain ASCII, if that's what you want. +In a binary distribution, pre-formatted documentation can be found in +the html and ps directories. Pre-formatted HTML documentation is also +available on the GHC web page. -* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what - options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use - the profiling facilities, etc. +In a source distribution, the unformatted (SGML) documentation is in +the following places: + + * fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide Users' Guide. + * fptools/hslibs/doc/hslibs Library documentation. + * fptools/docs Build System Guide. We welcome your comments and suggestions about this software! Please do not suffer or grumble in silence. The "bug reports" section of the -User's Guide (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we -would like to know when you report a problem. +User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a +problem. + +Mailing Lists +============= + + glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list) + cvs-ghc@haskell.org (developers & bleeding-edge users list) + + subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ + +Contributors +============= + +Current GHC team: + + Simon Peyton Jones [our Fearless Leader] + Simon Marlow [hired hand] + Julian Seward [hired hand] + Reuben Thomas [hired hand] -Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): +Additional Contributors (in alphabetical order): - Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [hired hand] - Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] - Simon Marlow (simonm) [hired hand] + Manuel Chakravarty + Sigbjorn Finne + Kevin Glynn + Jeff Lewis + Marcin Kowalczyk + Hans Wolfgang Lloidl + Sven Panne + Ken Shan + Keith Wansborough + Michael Weber + +Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): + + Juan Quintela (quintela) Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] - Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader] Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] - -Past contributors and/or continuing advisors: - - Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP] + Andy Gill (andy) [ex-PhD student; at Galois] Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP] Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews] John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI] @@ -44,11 +81,13 @@ Past contributors and/or continuing advisors: Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95; at MoD] Will Partain (partain) [GRASP/AQUA; touring with Johnny Cash] Bryan O'Sullivan (bos) [visiting slave, summer '94; at Sun] - Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, at Yale] + Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI, STG/Hugs etc.] Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil] David N Turner (dnt) [Linear Types; at An-Teallach] Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent] +And many others who've contributed bits of code / bug reports in the past. + Cool people who've let us use their machines: sparc-sun-sunos{4,5} PacSoft, Oregon Graduate Institute @@ -64,17 +103,3 @@ Simon's projects' acronyms: GRIP ('87-'90): Graph reduction in parallel GRASP ('90-'92): Graph reduction applications support project AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach - -GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ - -E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list) - -Send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk with 'help' in the body of the -message for information on joining either of these mailing lists. - -Anonymous FTP site: ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. -Mostly mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and haskell.org (same -directory). Also: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk, in -computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/.