From: simonmar <unknown>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:54:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [project @ 2004-10-18 08:54:06 by simonmar]
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[project @ 2004-10-18 08:54:06 by simonmar]
Here's the 6.2.2 announcement
---

diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE
index 24060c9..49993d2 100644
--- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ghc/ANNOUNCE
@@ -1,27 +1,18 @@
 
-   ============================================================
-    The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04
-   ============================================================
+   =============================================================
+    The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.2.2
+   =============================================================
 
-We are pleased to announce a new major release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 5.04.
+The GHC Team is pleased to announce the latest patchlevel release of
+GHC, 6.2.2.  This is a bugfix release only, there are no new features.
+Code that worked with 6.2.1 will work unchanged with 6.2.2.
 
-Highlights include:
-
-  * Hierarchical libraries, with documentation produced by Haddock.
-
-  * New type system extensions: full rank-N types and kind
-    annotations.
- 
-  * New heap profiling facilities (retainer profiling, biographical
-    profiling).
-
-  * MacOS X support
-
-See the release notes for a full list of the changes:
-
-   http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/release-5-04.html
+A lot of bugfixes have gone into 6.2.2; we believe it is one of the
+most stable releases of GHC ever.  Thanks to everyone who has been
+involved in testing pre-releases and submitting bug reports.
 
+This will also be the last release along the 6.2 branch, the next
+release (out "soon") will be 6.4 with plenty of new features.
 
 How to get it
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -41,7 +32,8 @@ system isn't available yet, please try again later.
 Background
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 Haskell is a standard lazy functional programming language; the
-current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998.
+current language version is Haskell 98, agreed in December 1998 and
+revised December 2002.
 
 GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell.  Included is
 an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
@@ -76,19 +68,12 @@ and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
 
   * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
   * sparc-sun-solaris2
-  * alpha-dec-osf3
-  * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS/X)
-
-Ports to the following platforms should be relatively easy (for a
-wunderhacker), but haven't been tested due to lack of time/hardware:
-
-  * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10}
-  * i386-unknown-solaris2
-  * mips-sgi-irix{5,6}
-  * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix
+  * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
 
-The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete run-down of what
-ports work; it can be found at
+Ports to other platforms are possible with varying degrees of
+difficulty.  The builder's guide on the web site gives a complete
+run-down of what ports work and how to go about porting to a new
+platform; it can be found at
 
    http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/building/building-guide.html