I am pleased to announce that a new beta release of Hugs 98 is now
available from: http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~mpj/hugs/hugs98.html
Headline news for this release includes:
- Hugs goes Haskell 98! Hugs 98 is the first released Haskell system
to support the new standard for Haskell 98.
- Hugs goes Open Source! Hugs 98 is the first Hugs release to be
distributed as Open source software. Responding to requests from
users, this relaxes the conditions of use and distribution of
previous releases, and will hopefully make it easier to use Hugs
for a wide range of projects.
This release of Hugs also merges the features of several earlier releases
into one single system. This includes:
- The module system and dynamic linking facilities of Hugs 1.4 (June 1998);
- The type system extensions (multi-parameter classes, TREX, rank-2
polymorphism, existentials, etc.) of Hugs 1.3c p1 (March 1998);
- New features and modifications to support the draft Haskell 98 standard;
- A whole range of bug fixes and additions for all of the above.
This beta release is believed to be quite stable and complete, and is
expected to form the basis of a new major release of Hugs in January or
(most likely :-) February 1999.
All the best,
Mark
