> Thanks for telling me that what I just downloaded is STG Hugs98,
> because I saw this before on the list and was confused to what it
> is. And indeed I am still a bit confuse because I don't know if this
> include the may release to and if there was a plain Hugs98 before.
I seemed to have confused the issue here.
(*) There is only one Hugs!
However, like most software, it is updated regularly.
(*) Hugs 98 is a generic name for any Hugs interpreter that
compiles Haskell 98.
(*) Currently, the latest version of Hugs is Hugs 98, September 1999.
This is based on the classic backend (G-machine based).
(*) We (Hugs team & GHC Team) are working on a new backend for
Hugs, that is sometimes called "the combined system",
because it uses the runtime system from GHC, it uses
a STG reduction engine, and can/will interoperate with
GHC binaries.
When you hear about STG Hugs, you are hearing about
the project to add the new backend onto Hugs. We expect
the next release of Hugs to use this new backend.
Look at
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/PacSoft/projects/Hugs/latest.htm
for more details.
I was asking for feedback about how best to package the
*next* version of Hugs (Hugs 98, Feb 2000?)
Hope this helps,
Andy Gill
