From 55f25d5e8df8d0c018fd7666361e690f971803ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: simonm <unknown> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 13:24:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 1997-09-09 13:24:57 by simonm] remove redundant ANNOUNCE --- ghc/ANNOUNCE | 107 --------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 107 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 ghc/ANNOUNCE diff --git a/ghc/ANNOUNCE b/ghc/ANNOUNCE deleted file mode 100644 index 77b7c5c77608..000000000000 --- a/ghc/ANNOUNCE +++ /dev/null @@ -1,107 +0,0 @@ - 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. - -- GitLab