X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=b1831eea8df9117c9c1bf4b9efa43ba87481eee2;hp=fa3ad5c5f84d4f1db518836ca70774a873ac565b;hb=272a418428beede04a9c4ae027474878c59d6ca1;hpb=46695f8ccbc6c98ff0dbcd499a0ab2a84c99ec77 diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index fa3ad5c..b1831ee 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,93 +1,53 @@ -This is version 2.07 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation -system (GHC). GHC 2.07 is a compiler for Haskell 1.4. +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler +============================ -2.07 is an interim source-only release, which fixes most of the bugs -reported since 2.06. We've done rudimentary testing on a few -platforms, but there might be a few bugs lurking. +(this file is fptools/ghc/README in a source distribution, and +fptools/README in a binary distribution). + +GHC is a batch compiler for Haskell 98. See the file ANNOUNCE for +information on the current version. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language. -Haskell 1.4 is the current version of the language, released in -May. 1996. The language definition is on the Web at -http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/haskell-report/haskell-report.html +Haskell 98 is the current version of the language, released in +December 1998. The language definition is on the Web at +http://www.haskell.org/definition/. -GHC documentation of interest: +More information on GHC can be found on its web page -* docs/installing.{dvi,info,html}: How to configure, build, and - install the system. + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ - The document, as with many others, is in TeX-produced DVI format - (.dvi suffix), or GNU Info format (.info); the latter is close to - plain ASCII, if that's what you want. +Documentation +============= -* ghc/docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}: How to use GHC; e.g., what - options are available, how to cope with common problems, how to use - the profiling facilities, etc. +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. -* ghc/docs/users_guide/release.{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this - release (and earlier releases). +In a source distribution, the unformatted (SGML) documentation is in +the following places: -* ghc/docs/README: About the other documentation in this release. + * 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 (docs/users_guide/user.{dvi,info,html}) says what we -would like to know when you report a problem. - -Current AQUA team (all @dcs.gla.ac.uk): - - Sigbjorn Finne (sof) [PhD student] - Hans Wolfgang Loidl (hwloidl) [PhD student] - Simon Marlow (simonm) [hired hand] - Thomas Nordin (nordin) [@cse.ogi.edu; Green Card Hero] - Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader] - Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] - Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] - -Past contributors and/or continuing advisors: - - 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] - -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 - -Dated: 97/03 - -GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html - -E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries) - - glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list) - - glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@... to join, send mail *here* - glasgow-haskell-users-request@... to join, send mail *here* - -Anonymous FTP site: ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk:pub/haskell/glasgow. Mostly -mirrored by ftp.cs.chalmers.se and haskell.cs.yale.edu (same -directory). Also: src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in -computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow/. +User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a +problem. + +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 +