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- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.09
- ==============================================
-
-We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 2.09. Source 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 2.09 contains some library changes that may break programs
-using glasgow extensions. The main points:
-
- * PrimIO has been removed, replaced by IO in all places
- (including the type of C calls).
- * The types of IO and ST have changed, to make them more
- efficient. This won't bite you unless you go digging
- around in the IO or ST monads, which you shouldn't...
- * Several extension libraries have been moved to be
- compatible with Hugs. See
-
- ftp://haskell.org/pub/reid/libs971028/libs.html
-
- for the definitions of the new libraries.
- * Several of the interfaces exported by GlaExts are deprecated,
- as they have been moved into common libraries (ST for instance).
- GlaExts will eventually contain only extensions that are
- exclusive to GHC.
-
-We've also fixed several bugs, one space leak, and added better
-handling of warnings (-W, -Wall and -Wnot flags). As usual, see the
-release notes in the Users' Guide for the full story.
-
-+ 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-<which> Your Name <your-email@where.you.are>
-
-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 GHC distribution page, which should
-be self-explanatory:
-
- ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
-
-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