1 The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.06
2 ==============================================
4 We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
5 Compiler (GHC), version 2.06. Source distribution is freely available
6 via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
8 Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
9 current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
10 related information is available from the Haskell home page at
17 Release 2.06 represent work done through August '97.
19 Highlights of this release:
21 * All bugs reported since the release of 2.05 have been fixed.
22 * GHC's interface file parser now uses the latest version of
23 Happy, and as a result we've included Happy in the distribution.
25 A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes in the
31 We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
32 mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be:
34 subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
36 Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC
37 users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk
40 + On-line GHC-related resources
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43 Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
45 GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
46 Haskell home page http://haskell.org/
47 Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/
48 comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html
54 The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
57 ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
59 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
60 README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB:
61 preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option
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68 To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB
69 memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either
70 version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms:
73 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
74 * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2}
76 * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}.
77 * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
79 Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's
80 guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
81 an on-line version can be found at
83 http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html