X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ghc%2FREADME;h=e5a9a6960dd866773c95c9d9e6052767e5e208de;hp=8dfc8904a637ba938369d8878672a0269707c03e;hb=28a464a75e14cece5db40f2765a29348273ff2d2;hpb=5eb1c77c795f92ed0f4c8023847e9d4be1a4fd0d diff --git a/ghc/README b/ghc/README index 8dfc890..e5a9a69 100644 --- a/ghc/README +++ b/ghc/README @@ -1,86 +1,53 @@ -This is version 2.01 of the Glorious Glasgow Haskell compilation -system (GHC). GHC 2.01 is a compiler for Haskell 1.3. +The Glasgow Haskell Compiler +============================ -2.01 is a full GHC release; however, as the first release of the 1.3 -compiler, it is "test" quality; it very well may have serious bugs. -The top-level file "ANNOUNCE-2.01" says more. +(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 1.3 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/install_guide/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 +============= -* 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. -* docs/release_notes/release{dvi,info,html}: Release notes for this - release (and all previous releases). +In a source distribution, the unformatted (DocBook XML) documentation +is in the following places: -* 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) [PhD student] - Will Partain (partain) [hired hand, GRASP/AQUA] - Simon Peyton Jones (simonpj) [our Fearless Leader] - Patrick Sansom (sansom) [hired hand, Bidirectional Analyses] - Phil Trinder (trinder) [hired hand, Parade] - David N Turner (dnt) [hired hand, Linear Types] - -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] - 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] - Phil Wadler (wadler) [GRASP; at Lucent soon] - -Cool people who've let us use their machines: - - hppa1.1-hp-hpux Sam Nelson, Stirling University - powerpc-ibm-aix Walter Robinson, Mechanical Eng'g, Glasgow U. - -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 +User's Guide says what we would like to know when you report a +problem. -Dated: 96/07 +Mailing Lists +============= -GHC WWW page: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc.html + 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) -E-mail contacts: - glasgow-haskell-request@dcs.gla.ac.uk (admin & general queries) + subscribe at http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ - glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk (bug reports mailing list) - glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk (users' mailing list) +Contributors +============= - glasgow-haskell-bugs-request@... to join, send mail *here* - glasgow-haskell-users-request@... to join, send mail *here* +Please see + + http://www.haskell.org/ghc/contributors.html -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/.