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+   =============================================================
+    The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 6.4
+   =============================================================
+
+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:
+
+  - GADTs (Generalised Abstract Datatypes) are supported  
+
+  - STM (Software Transactional Memory) is implemented
+
+  - Full support for Cabal and a much improved package framework
+
+  - Better support for mutually-recursive modules
+
+  - A complete rewrite of the back end
+
+  - Accurate source locations in error messages
+
+  - Lots of new libraries
+
+The full release notes are here:
+
+  http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.4/html/users_guide/release-6-4.html
+
+How to get it
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+The easy way is to go to the WWW 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.
+
+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.
+
+GHC is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell.  Included is
+an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of
+platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick
+development.  The distribution includes space and time profiling
+facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various
+language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign
+language interfaces (C, whatever).  GHC is distributed under a
+BSD-style open source license.
+
+A wide variety of Haskell related resources (tutorials, libraries,
+specifications, documentation, compilers, interpreters, references,
+contact information, links to research groups) are available from the
+Haskell home page (see below).
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+System requirements
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+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
+
+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/
+
+
+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
+
+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/
+
+Please report bugs using our SourceForge page at
+	
+	http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
+
+or send them to glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org.
+
+GHC users hang out on glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org.  Bleeding
+edge CVS users party on cvs-ghc@haskell.org.
+