oi!
It's not really a bug, but I wanted to say that a Debian GNU/Linux package
of Hugs98 is available... the download part of the Hugs 98 site mentions
using alien, but that is really a kludge: it's best to remove that reference
as far as Debian is concerned.
Unlike other distributions of Linux, Debian keeps a (huge!) central archive
of all packages, including Hugs 98. Debian also has tools for automatically
downloading and installing packages from that server. Thus, this command wil
usually suffice for Debian users who wish to install Hugs 98:
apt-get install hugs
The advantage of this is that Hugs is then automatically upgraded to the
latest version whenever "apt-get upgrade" is invoked.
Unfortunately this package is in the ever-changing "potato" directory: this
will be the next release of Debian when it is "frozen". That means that if
people are using the older ("stable") Debian, they're out of luck. They
would have been equally out of luck using the converted Red Hat package
though. Many people--especially those with an internet connection--use
potato, however.
For those without apt or similar, the location of the archive is:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/interpreters/hugs_98.199905-1.deb
It is noteworthy that the central Debian archive also keeps copies of the
sources. This means that this archive (and all of its mirrors!) also mirror
the source of Hugs 98. The URI of that is:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/interpreters/hugs98_98.199905.orig.tar.gz
I hope any of this was useful =)
Anyway, keep up the good work!
--
Wessel Dankers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Haskell rules, and so does Hugs!
