X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=b1831eea8df9117c9c1bf4b9efa43ba87481eee2;hp=505362054d22ac0c954b8e2945e41ea27f28393d;hb=272a418428beede04a9c4ae027474878c59d6ca1;hpb=e131c57c968a64efe8be0b573f9fc77b0729032d diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index 5053620..b1831ee 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -16,74 +16,38 @@ More information on GHC can be found on its web page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ -GHC documentation of interest: +Documentation +============= -* docs/installing.{dvi,html}: How to configure, build, and - install the system. +In a binary distribution, pre-formatted documentation can be found in +the html and ps directories. Pre-formatted HTML documentation is also +available on the GHC web page. - The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format - (.dvi suffix), or HTML. +In a source distribution, the unformatted (SGML) documentation is in +the following places: -* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what - options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use - the profiling facilities, etc. - -* ghc/docs/libraries/libs.{dvi,html}: Several libraries that are - provided by both GHC and Hugs. + * fptools/ghc/docs/users_guide Users' Guide. + * fptools/hslibs/doc/hslibs Library documentation. + * fptools/docs Build System Guide. 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 says what we would like to know when you report a problem. -Current GHC team: - - Simon Peyton Jones ( simonpj@microsoft.com) [our Fearless Leader] - Sigbjorn Finne (v-sfinne@microsoft.com) [hired hand] - Simon Marlow (simonmar@microsoft.com) [hired hand] - Julian Seward (v-julsew@microsoft.com) [hired hand] - -Past contributors and/or continuing advisors (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): - - Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] - Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] - Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] - Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] - 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, 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] - -And many others who've contributed bits of code / bug reports in the past. - -Cool people who've let us use their machines: - - 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 - -E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list) - -Send mail to majordomo@haskell.org with 'help' in the body of the -message for information on joining/leaving either of these mailing -lists. +Mailing Lists +============= + + glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org (bug reports mailing list) + glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org (users' mailing list) + cvs-ghc@haskell.org (developers & bleeding-edge users list) + + subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ + +Contributors +============= + +Please see + + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html +