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diff --git a/ghc/docs/ANNOUNCE-0.19 b/ghc/docs/ANNOUNCE-0.19 deleted file mode 100644 index 6f0523f384..0000000000 --- a/ghc/docs/ANNOUNCE-0.19 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,130 +0,0 @@ - The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 0.19 - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - "What a great system!" - -The third public release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler is now -available (GHC, version 0.19). Binaries and sources are freely -available by FTP; details below. - -Highlights of what's new in 0.19 since 0.16 (July 1993): - * Somewhat faster compilation times. - * Still better error messages. - * Better Haskell 1.2 compliance, including more derived instances, - `default' declarations, renaming, etc. - * Native-code generator for SPARC. - * Unfoldings across module boundaries. - * Automatic specialisation of overloaded functions. - * Better strictness analysis, including "looking inside tuples" and - "absence analysis" (arguments that aren't used). - * New "simplifier" (program-transformation engine). - -Please see the release notes for a more complete list (including -Backward Incompatibilities to watch out for). - -To run this release, you need a machine with 16+MB memory, GNU C -(`gcc') [version 2.1 or greater], and `perl'. We have seen GHC work -in *some* form or fashion on: Sun4s, Sun3s, DECstations, DEC Alphas, -HP-PA boxes. Sun4s, our development platform, are by far the best -supported. We will distribute binaries as we build them. - -Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in -ghc/README to find all of the documentation in and about this release. - -Please report bugs to glasgow-haskell-bugs@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk and -direct general queries to glasgow-haskell-request@<same>. - -We are very grateful to everyone who has sent a bug report, sent a -"look at this weird result" report, lent us a machine on which to try -a port, or (best of all) contributed code. Keep up the good work. - -Simon Peyton Jones - -Dated: 93/12/16 -.................................................................... - -"Should I start using GHC 0.19?" -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -* If you're using a previous release of GHC: YES. (Recompile everything.) - -* If you want to hack on a Haskell compiler: YES. - -* If you're new to Haskell: Try Gofer (an interpreter for a - Haskell-like language) first; then come back and say YES. - -* If you want time profiling as well as space profiling: YES. - -* If you need the Glasgow Haskell extensions, i.e., calling C, unboxed - datatypes, monadic I/O etc.: YES. (ghc/README says a little more - about these features.) - -* If you're using HBC at the moment: not a clear YES or NO. *We* - really like having both compilers to play against each other. For - example, HBC has better compilation times, but you'll like GHC's - error messages. And you can try them both before submitting a bug - report for either one. - -* If you want simulated parallel execution on a uniprocessor: NO. - (Use the "hbcpp" variant of HBC from York.) - -.................................................................... - -How to make sure every release of GHC will run your program (well) -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -*Please* send us a copy! Part of our work is to collect and study -large and *realistic* Haskell programs. Only you can provide them. -They need not be final, polished versions -- they just have to run. - -Among other things, we run every release against our entire -collection, so if your program's in there... - -.................................................................... - -How to get it -~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -This release is available, in whole or in part, from the usual Haskell -anonymous FTP sites, in the directory pub/haskell/glasgow: - - ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (130.209.240.50) - ftp.cs.chalmers.se (129.16.225.66) - nebula.cs.yale.edu (128.36.13.1) - -We are mirrored by src.doc.ic.ac.uk, in -computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow, and you can get files -from there by every means known to humanity. - -These are the available files (.Z for compressed, .gz for gzipped) -- -some are `on demand', ask if you don't see them: - -ghc-0.19-bin-sun4.tar.{Z,gz} A binary distribution -- unpack & run! - For SunOS 4.1.x; assumes you have GNU C (gcc) - version 2.x around... - -ghc-0.19-bin-<other>.tar.gz Other binary distributions -- we will - make them available as we go along; they - will be announced on the Haskell mailing list - (not elsewhere). - -ghc-0.19-src.tar.gz The basic source distribution; about 3MB. - -ghc-0.19-hc-files.tar.gz The intermediate C (.hc) files for the - compiler proper, the prelude, and `Hello, - world'. - -ghc-0.19.ANNOUNCE This file - -ghc-0.19.{README,RELEASE-NOTES} From the distribution; for those who - want to peek before FTPing... - -ghc-0.19-ps-docs.tar.gz Main GHC documents in PostScript format; in - case your TeX setup doesn't agree with our - DVI files... - -ghc-0.19-hi-files-hbc.tar.gz - Interface files for the compiler proper - (ghc/compiler/*/*.hi), to be used if booting - with either HBC. (The distributed .hi files - assume GHC version 0.19.) - -There are no diffs from version 0.16, as they would be laughably huge. |