Thanks Ross, looks good, but the maintainer section is out-of-date. I've hardly touched Hugs since March, so having you down as "The Maintainer" would now be correct, really. I don't foresee my rate of contributions to radically pick up either (but will be happy to continue contributing, on&off.)
Same goes for Jeff, he's equally embarassed when recognised in the street as the Hugs maintainer. --sigbjorn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ross Paterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "C.Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 13:49 Subject: Re: Special Invitation :-) HC&A Report (November 2003) > [redirected from hugs-users] > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 06:55:41PM +0000, C.Reinke wrote: > > in case you haven't seen the calls for contributions on the main > > Haskell list: the Haskell community hopes to hear from you about all > > the interesting stuff you've been brewing over the last six months, > > not to mention the even more interesting stuff in the pipeline!-) > > > > I'm particularly worried about Hugs being the only one of the > > main Haskell implementations without an update so far.. > > Here's a possible draft Hugs entry for the HC&A report. Feel free > to modify/rewrite/discard: > > Project Status: Actively maintained, stable > > Hugs is a very portable, easily installed Haskell-98 compliant interpreter > that supports a wide range of type-system and runtime-system extensions > including typed record extensions, implicit parameters, the foreign > function interface extension and the hierarchical module namespace > extension. > > Current state > > The Hugs98 interpreter is now maintained by Sigbjorn Finne and Jeffrey > Lewis, both of Galois Connections, with help from Alastair Reid of Reid > Consulting and Ross Paterson of City University, London and others. > > At the time of writing, a new major release of Hugs is almost ready. > > With this release, Hugs will rely exclusively on the Haskell hierarchical > libraries. This reduces the amount of Haskell code to be maintained with > Hugs, and also increases compatibility with the other implementations. > Coverage has also improved -- Hugs now supports imprecise exceptions > (but not asynchronous ones), unboxed arrays and more. Compatibility > stubs for old libraries are also provided as a transistional measure, > but some day these will disappear. > > With these library improvements, together with Hugs's long-standing > support for various Haskell extensions, code developed with GHC can > often be made to work with Hugs too with a little effort. Sven Panne > has done this with his GLUT and OpenGL packages, and we would encourage > other developers to do the same. > > Interoperation with .NET (on Windows platforms), formerly a separate > add-on, has been enhanced and is now integrated with Hugs. You can > instantiate and use .NET objects from within Haskell, and call and use > Haskell functions from any .NET language. > > Assorted fragments of documentation have been re-organized and augmented > as a Users's Guide describing the current state of Hugs. It is however > less complete than we would like in places. Contributions are welcome. > > Future plans > > Hugs will continue to improve its coverage of the libraries. Older > interfaces will disappear. > > The manpower available for Hugs development and maintenance is limited, > and contributions from volunteers are welcome. For example, Dimitry > Golubovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is working on adding optional Unicode > support to Hugs. People who test the CVS version are also a great help. > > Further reading > > http://www.haskell.org/hugs/ _______________________________________________ Cvs-hugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-hugs
