[project @ 1997-12-22 11:24:11 by simonm]

a few changes to the 2.10 announcement

ghc/ANNOUNCE

-	     The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.09
+	     The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 2.10
 	    ==============================================
 
 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.
+Compiler (GHC), version 2.10. Source and Binary 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
@@ -14,28 +14,21 @@ related information is available from the Haskell home page at
 + 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.
+Release 2.10 is a full binary release (at least for the platforms we
+have access to, other builds are solicited).  We hope this will be a
+solid release - barring any unforseen problems this should be the end
+of the 2.xx line.
+
+Major new things in this release:
+
+	* better -fwarn-overlapping-patterns checking,
+	* lots of bug fixes.
+
+The next release will likely be GHC 3.00, containing mult-parameter
+type classes amongst other things.  As of the next release, we will no
+longer support building with GHC 0.29.
+
+Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the GHC Team!
 
 + Mailing lists
 ================
@@ -63,10 +56,10 @@ 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:
+The easy way is to go to the WWW page, which should be
+self-explanatory:
 
-	ftp://ftp.dcs.gla.ac.uk/pub/haskell/glasgow/README.html
+	http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/
 
 Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in the
 README file to find all of the documentation about this release.  NB: