[project @ 1997-09-09 13:24:57 by simonm]

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ghc/ANNOUNCE

-	     The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.04
-	    ==============================================
-
-We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 2.04. Source distribution is freely available
-via the World-Wide Web and 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 2.04 represent work done through May '97; highlights include:
-
- * Data constructors can now have polymophic fields, and ordinary
-   functions can have polymoprhic arguments.  Details on
-
-	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/quantification.html
-
-   Existential types coming, but not done yet.
-
- * Pattern guards implemented, see
-	
-	http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~simonpj/guards.html
-
- * Compiler can now compile itself (i.e., no real dependence on
-   the Haskell 1.2 compiler anymore (version 0.29)).
-
- * Faster compilation
-   Compilation speeds has improved since 2.02, although it still slower
-   than GHC-0.29, the Good Old Compiler. (the gap is narrowing, though!)
-	
- * Code quality is better, the simplifier and inlining machinery has been
-   refurbished. Not sure how much better.
-
- * powerpc-ibm-aix is now a supported GHC platform, due to the 
-   Heroic Efforts of Andr\'e Santos <alms@di.ufpe.br>.
-
- * It has been tested against a large suite of (mostly) Haskell 1.2
-   programs (the NoFib suite). Bunch of bugs related to new 
-   Haskell 1.4 has been weeded out.
-
- * A couple of Haskell 1.4 features are still incompletely supported,
-   notably polymorphic strictness annotations, and Unicode.
-
-Please see the release notes for a complete discussion of What's New.
-
-
-+ 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 2.02/2.03). 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}.
-  * 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.
-