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- =============================================================
- The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4
- =============================================================
+ ==============================================================
+ The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.10.1
+ ==============================================================
-The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. It
-has been a long time since the last major release (Dec 2003!), and a
-lot has happened:
+The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
+have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
+including:
- - GADTs (Generalised Abstract Datatypes) are supported
+ * Some new language features have been implemented:
+ * Record syntax: wild-card patterns, punning, and field disambiguation
+ * Generalised quasi-quotes
+ * Generalised list comprehensions
+ * View patterns
- - STM (Software Transactional Memory) is implemented
+ * Type families have been completely re-implemented
- - Full support for Cabal and a much improved package framework
+ * Now comes with Haddock 2, which supports all GHC extensions
- - Better support for mutually-recursive modules
+ * Parallel garbage collection
- - A complete rewrite of the back end
+ * Base provides extensible exceptions
- - Accurate source locations in error messages
+ * The GHC API is easier to use
- - Lots of new libraries
+ * External core (output only) now works again
+
+ * Data Parallel Haskell (DPH) comes as part of GHC
The full release notes are here:
- http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4/html/users_guide/release-6-4.html
+ http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.10.1/html/users_guide/release-6-10-1.html
How to get it
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be self-explanatory:
+
+The easy way is to go to the web page, which should be self-explanatory:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
-We supply binary builds in the native package format for various
-flavours of Linux and BSD, and in Windows Installer (MSI) form
-for Windows folks. Binary builds for other platforms are available
-as a .tar.gz which can be installed wherever you want. The source
-distribution is also available from the same place.
+We supply binary builds in the native package format for many
+platforms, and the source distribution is available from the same
+place.
Packages will appear as they are built - if the package for your
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 and
revised December 2002.
@@ -68,49 +73,56 @@ On-line GHC-related resources
Relevant URLs on the World-Wide Web:
-GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
-Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
-comp.lang.functional FAQ http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
+GHC home page http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
+GHC developers' home page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
+Haskell home page http://www.haskell.org/
-
-System requirements
+Supported Platforms
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-To compile programs with GHC, you need a machine with 64+MB memory, GCC
-and perl. This release is known to work on the following platforms:
- * i386-unknown-{linux,*bsd,mingw32}
- * sparc-sun-solaris2
- * powerpc-apple-darwin (MacOS X)
- * powerpc-apple-linux
+The list of platforms we support, and the people responsible for them,
+is here:
+
+ http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors
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
+difficulty. The Building Guide describes how to go about porting to a
+new platform:
- http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
+ http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
+
+
+Developers
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+We welcome new contributors. Instructions on accessing our source
+code repository, and getting started with hacking on GHC, are
+available from the GHC's developer's site run by Trac:
+
+ http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/
Mailing lists
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, use
the web interfaces at
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
There are several other haskell and ghc-related mailing lists on
www.haskell.org; for the full list, see
- http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
+ http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/
+
+Some GHC developers hang out on #haskell on IRC, too:
-Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at
-
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
+ http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/IRC_channel
-or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
+Please report bugs using our bug tracking system. Instructions on
+reporting bugs can be found here:
-GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org. Bleeding
-edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.
+ http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug