From 937a87f4dc29881171478317fb5a8eb855735093 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rrt Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:05:59 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 2000-07-17 10:05:59 by rrt] Merged Julian's changes to make it more comprehensible to non FP programmers. --- ghc/ANNOUNCE | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE index 87417db..277f044 100644 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,19 +1,31 @@ - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08 - ============================================== + The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 4.08 + ============================================== We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 4.08. The source distribution is freely -available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below. +available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP, under a +BSD-style license. See below for download details. Pre-built +packages for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Win32 are also available. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998. -Haskell related information is available from the Haskell home page at - http://www.haskell.org/ +GHC is a state-of-the-art optimising compiler for Haskell, generating +good code for a variety of platforms. The distribution includes space +and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and +support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, +and foreign language interfaces (C, C++, whatever). + +A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries, +specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references, +contact information, links to research groups) are available from the +Haskell home page at + + http://www.haskell.org/ GHC's Web page lives at - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ + What's new ============= @@ -47,8 +59,7 @@ There are the following changes For full details see the release notes: - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/users_guide/release-4-08.html - + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/users_guide/release-4-08.html + Mailing lists ================ @@ -66,31 +77,28 @@ Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org; GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org. - + On-line GHC-related resources ================================ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: -GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ -Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ +GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ +Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/ comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html - + How to get it ================ The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory: - http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB: preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option for tar, please)! - + System requirements ====================== @@ -99,7 +107,7 @@ To compile the sources, you need a machine with 32+MB memory, GNU C release is known to work on the following platforms: * i386-unknown-{linux,freebsd,netbsd,cygwin32,mingw32} - * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2} + * sparc-sun-solaris2 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10} Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a @@ -114,3 +122,4 @@ The builder's guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what ports work; an on-line version can be found at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/4.08/building/building-guide.html + -- 1.7.10.4