The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.10 ============================================== We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell 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 related information is available from the Haskell home page at http://haskell.org/ + What's new ============= 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, * Happy is no longer included in binary distributions: we're making separate Happy binaries, see ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/happy * 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 ================ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@dcs.gla.ac.uk; the msg body should be: subscribe glasgow-haskell- Your Name Please send bug reports about GHC to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.gla.ac.uk ; GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@dcs.gla.ac.uk + On-line GHC-related resources ================================ Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web: GHC home page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ Haskell home page http://haskell.org/ Glasgow FP group page http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/ comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/faq.html + How to get it ================ The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory: 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: preserve modification times when un-tarring the files (no `m' option for tar, please)! + System requirements ====================== To compile up this source-only release, you need a machine with 16+MB memory, GNU C (`gcc'), `perl' plus a version of GHC installed (either version 0.29 or 2.02 onwards). We have seen GHC work on these platforms: * alpha-dec-osf2 * hppa1.1-hp-hpux{9,10} * sparc-sun-{sunos4,solaris2} * mips-sgi-irix{5,6} * i386-unknown-{linux,solaris2,freebsd,cygwin32}. * {rs6000,powerpc}-ibm-aix Similar platforms should work with minimal hacking effort. The installer's guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work; an on-line version can be found at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html EOF