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@@ -1,49 +1,54 @@ - ============================================================= - 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 |