We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 2.05. Source 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 related information is available from the Haskell home page at http://haskell.org/ + What's new ============= Release 2.05 represent work done through July '97. There's no changes at the language- or library level with respect to 2.04, but the release includes quite a few bug fixes and several of the front-end passes of the compiler has been improved upon. + Mailing lists ================ We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]; the msg body should be: subscribe glasgow-haskell-<which> Your Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please send bug reports about GHC to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; GHC users hang out on [EMAIL PROTECTED] + 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 onwards). 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}. * {rs6000,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; an on-line version can be found at http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/ghc-doc/install-guide.html EOF