X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=31c6d9697e331e30a033b8a65d415ad9e09b0c68;hb=f3653fdfe391a2104c24fdcc4931fa695d3b4d60;hp=bab25f92ffb732b954cb798e38833abefbf83c45;hpb=dbee00ad9881ba3cda3718146a8ce9eb3dc13dad;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index bab25f9..31c6d96 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -8,28 +8,27 @@ 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 98 is the current version of the language, released in +Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in December 1998. The language definition is on the Web at -http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/Haskell/haskell98.html +http://www.haskell.org/definition/. More information on GHC can be found on its web page - http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ -GHC documentation of interest: +Documentation +============= -* docs/installing.{dvi,html}: How to configure, build, and - install the system. +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. - The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format - (.dvi suffix), or HTML. +In a source distribution, the unformatted (SGML) documentation is in +the following places: -* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what - options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use - the profiling facilities, etc. - -* ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are - provided by both GHC and Hugs. + * fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide Users' Guide. + * 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 @@ -38,18 +37,28 @@ problem. Current GHC team: - Simon Peyton Jones ( simonpj@microsoft.com) [our Fearless Leader] - Sigbjorn Finne (v-sfinne@microsoft.com) [hired hand] - Simon Marlow (t-simonm@microsoft.com) [hired hand] - Julian Seward (v-julsew@microsoft.com) [hired hand] + Simon Peyton Jones [our Fearless Leader] + Simon Marlow [hired hand] + Julian Seward [hired hand] + Reuben Thomas [hired hand] + +Additional Contributors (in alphabetical order): + + Manuel Chakravarty + Sigbjorn Finne + Kevin Glynn + Jeff Lewis + Hans Wolfgang Lloidl + Sven Panne + Keith Wansborough Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): + Juan Quintela (quintela) Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] - Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] - Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP] + Andy Gill (andy) [ex-PhD student; at OGI] Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP] Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews] John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI] @@ -57,7 +66,7 @@ Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): 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] @@ -81,14 +90,9 @@ Simon's projects' acronyms: AQUA ('93- ): Declarative systems architecture: a quantitative approach E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list) -Send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk with 'help' in the body of the +Send mail to majordomo@haskell.org with 'help' in the body of the message for information on joining/leaving 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/.