Welcome to GHC! +
This is the top of the GHC documentation tree, where you will find -links to all the supplied documentation about GHC and its -libraries.
++ Welcome to GHC! +
-The User's Guide has all you need to know about using GHC: - command line options, language extensions, GHCi, etc. -
+ This is the top of the GHC documentation tree, where you will find + links to all the supplied documentation about GHC and its libraries. +
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Hierarchical Libraries +
+ The User's Guide +
++ The User's Guide has all you need to know about using GHC: + command line options, language extensions, GHCi, etc. +
+GHC comes with a large number of libraries, arranged - hierarchically. The libraries are divided into packages - - to use a package of libraries from GHC or GHCi just add the flag - -package <name> to the command line, where - <name> is the name of the package (see the - section on packages in the User's Guide for more information). The - base and haskell98 packages are always available, - so you don't need to use the -package flag to get these. +
+ Documentation for the hierarchical libraries that come with GHC. +
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+ Previous versions of GHC (before version 5.04) came with a suite + of libraries known as hslibs, aka the Hugs-GHC libraries. + As we are in the process of moving towards using hierarchical + libraries for everything, many of these libraries have moved over to + the new packages in the hierarchical libraries above. We still + provide the old hslibs libraries for backwards compatibility + and also for those libraries which have yet to move into the + hierarchy. For libraries which have moved, the documentation + contains a pointer to the location in the new libraries. +
++ Libraries which haven't moved yet, so are still only available from + here, include: the Win32 library, HaXml, + and a few others. +
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Previous versions of GHC (before version 5.04) came with a suite - of libraries known as hslibs, aka the Hugs-GHC libraries. - As we are in the process of moving towards using hierarchical - libraries for everything, many of these libraries have moved over to - the new packages in the hierarchical libraries above. We still - provide the old hslibs libraries for backwards compatibility - and also for those libraries which have yet to move into the - hierarchy. For libraries which have moved, the documentation - contains a pointer to the location in the new libraries. - -
Libraries which haven't moved yet, so are still only available from - here, include: the POSIX library, the Win32 library, HaXml, Readline, - and a few others. -
+ Cabal +
+An infrastructure for building and distributing Haskell + software.
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