X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=d055879054641411dda203c044e49b71caf6fde1;hb=8bd38339235b7c7755cbbb184b5c6a4e4895dc4e;hp=ccc3edbbba4e621e8337e5c1e0efb9ae3f1a4a05;hpb=e7d21ee4f8ac907665a7e170c71d59e13a01da09;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index ccc3edb..d055879 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,78 +1,80 @@ -This is version 0.26 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation -system (GHC). This is a major public release. The top-level file -"ANNOUNCE-0.26" says more. +This is version 3.02 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation +system (GHC). GHC 3.02 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4. -Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language [see -SIGPLAN Notices, May 1992]. Some general merits of GHC are given at -the end of this file. +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. -Documentation of interest: +GHC documentation of interest: -* docs/install_guide/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, - build, and install the system. +* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and + install the system. 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. -* docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what +* 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. -* docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this - release (and all previous releases). - -* docs/README: About the other documentation in this release. - 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. -Current AQUA team (all @dcs.glasgow.ac.uk): +Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): - Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student] - Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student] - Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; now a research fellow] - Simon Marlow (simonm) [PhD student] - Darren Moffat (moffatd) [slave, summer '95] - Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA] + Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [hired hand] + Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] + Simon Marlow (simonm) [hired hand] + Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader] - Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, "Bidirectional Analyses"] - Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student] + Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] + Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] Past contributors and/or continuing advisors: - Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP; now at Open University] - John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; now at OGI] - Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; just moved to HP] + + Andy Gill (andy) [PhD student; at HP] + Cordy Hall (cvh) [GRASP] + Kevin Hammond (kh) [GRASP; at St. Andrews] + John Launchbury (jl) [AQUA; at OGI] + Jim Mattson (mattson) [hired hand, AQUA; HP] + 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, now working at Yale] - Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP] + Alastair Reid (areid) [GHCI god, at Yale] + Andr\'e Santos (andre) [PhD student; back in Brazil] + David N Turner (dnt) [Linear Types; at An-Teallach] + Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent] Cool people who've let us use their machines: - hppa1.1-hp-hpux Sam Nelson, Stirling University - mips-sgi-irix5 Tim Niblett, Turing Institute, Glasgow - sparc-sun-solaris2 Durham University + + sparc-sun-sunos{4,5} PacSoft, Oregon Graduate Institute + hppa1.1-hp-hpux, + i386-unknown-linux Charles Krasic, Oregon Graduate Institute + alpha-dec-osf, + i386-*-solaris2 Mark Fanty, CSLU, Oregon Graduate Institute + +Also thanks to Conal Elliott, Microsoft Research for facilitating the work +on the Win32 port of GHC. 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 -Dated: 95/07/24 - -GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html +GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (general queries) - - glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (users' mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@... to join, send mail *here* - glasgow-haskell-users-request@... to join, send mail *here* +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.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. 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