- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.09
+ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.10
==============================================
We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 2.09. Source distribution is freely available
-via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
+Compiler (GHC), version 2.10. Source and Binary distribution is freely
+available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
current language version is 1.4, agreed in April, 1997. Haskell
+ What's new
=============
-Release 2.09 contains some library changes that may break programs
-using glasgow extensions. The main points:
-
- * PrimIO has been removed, replaced by IO in all places
- (including the type of C calls).
- * The types of IO and ST have changed, to make them more
- efficient. This won't bite you unless you go digging
- around in the IO or ST monads, which you shouldn't...
- * Several extension libraries have been moved to be
- compatible with Hugs. See
-
- ftp://haskell.org/pub/reid/libs971028/libs.html
-
- for the definitions of the new libraries.
- * Several of the interfaces exported by GlaExts are deprecated,
- as they have been moved into common libraries (ST for instance).
- GlaExts will eventually contain only extensions that are
- exclusive to GHC.
-
-We've also fixed several bugs, one space leak, and added better
-handling of warnings (-W, -Wall and -Wnot flags). As usual, see the
-release notes in the Users' Guide for the full story.
+Release 2.10 is a full binary release (at least for the platforms we
+have access to, other builds are solicited). We hope this will be a
+solid release - barring any unforseen problems this should be the end
+of the 2.xx line.
+
+Major new things in this release:
+
+ * better -fwarn-overlapping-patterns checking,
+ * lots of bug fixes.
+
+The next release will likely be GHC 3.00, containing mult-parameter
+type classes amongst other things. As of the next release, we will no
+longer support building with GHC 0.29.
+
+Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the GHC Team!
+ Mailing lists
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+ How to get it
================
-The easy way is to go to the WWW GHC distribution page, which should
-be self-explanatory:
+The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
+self-explanatory:
- ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
+ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
README file to find all of the documentation about this release. NB: