From: simonm Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 11:24:11 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [project @ 1997-12-22 11:24:11 by simonm] X-Git-Tag: Approx_2487_patches~1134 X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6df3befbd269355a600a16c69468025cd2c793aa;p=ghc-hetmet.git [project @ 1997-12-22 11:24:11 by simonm] a few changes to the 2.10 announcement --- diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index dd66b2c..b599935 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.09 + The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.10 ============================================== We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell -Compiler (GHC), version 2.09. Source distribution is freely available -via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below. +Compiler (GHC), version 2.10. Source and Binary distribution is freely +available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell @@ -14,28 +14,21 @@ related information is available from the Haskell home page at + What's new ============= -Release 2.09 contains some library changes that may break programs -using glasgow extensions. The main points: - - * PrimIO has been removed, replaced by IO in all places - (including the type of C calls). - * The types of IO and ST have changed, to make them more - efficient. This won't bite you unless you go digging - around in the IO or ST monads, which you shouldn't... - * Several extension libraries have been moved to be - compatible with Hugs. See - - ftp://haskell.org/pub/reid/libs971028/libs.html - - for the definitions of the new libraries. - * Several of the interfaces exported by GlaExts are deprecated, - as they have been moved into common libraries (ST for instance). - GlaExts will eventually contain only extensions that are - exclusive to GHC. - -We've also fixed several bugs, one space leak, and added better -handling of warnings (-W, -Wall and -Wnot flags). As usual, see the -release notes in the Users' Guide for the full story. +Release 2.10 is a full binary release (at least for the platforms we +have access to, other builds are solicited). We hope this will be a +solid release - barring any unforseen problems this should be the end +of the 2.xx line. + +Major new things in this release: + + * better -fwarn-overlapping-patterns checking, + * lots of bug fixes. + +The next release will likely be GHC 3.00, containing mult-parameter +type classes amongst other things. As of the next release, we will no +longer support building with GHC 0.29. + +Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the GHC Team! + Mailing lists ================ @@ -63,10 +56,10 @@ comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html + How to get it ================ -The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should -be self-explanatory: +The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be +self-explanatory: - ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html + http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB: