RE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler, version 4.05?

1999-09-30 Thread Alex Ferguson


 After a release, the version number in the repository is bumped up by
 one, that's all there's to these rumours. A release of 4.05 isn't due
 anytime soon (you have to report *all* the bugs in 4.04 first :-)

I had better install it first, then...


 Unless you want to become a fptools CVS groupie, stick with 4.04.

This depends.  Is there a badge, or a hat, or something?



Re: Happy v1.6.

1999-09-30 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty

Alex Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote,

 Since ghc-4.04 confuguration insists one has Happy v1.6, has this
 actually been released?  I see no link to it from the usually suspect
 sites.

AFAIK it is still in pre-release mode (and everybody -
except me *sniff* - is in Paris this week attending ICFP and
the Haskell workshop).  If you are using Linux, you can get
the binary and source rpms of the 1.6 pre-release from my
ftp server

  ftp://greyarea.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/jibunmaki/

 If it's Imminent, can a make the modest suggestion that it have a
 standalone makefile in it?  Having to slot it into a ghc source
 build tree has always struck me as both inconvemient, and overkill.

It already builds on its own.  All Glaswegian FP software
uses the the same `fptools' environment of makefiles and
such, but you can slot each component (being it GHC or
Happy) on its own into the `fptools' harness and build it
(the source tar files usually contain `fptools' plus one
component, and thus, are self-sufficient).

If you don't use Linux or just want to build it on your own
for fun, getting the stuff out of CVS is really easy;

  http://www.haskell.org/ghc/cvs-cheat-sheet.html#first

describes how.  If you don't have CVS, I can provide you
with a tar file _and_ you should definitely have a serious
word with your systems administrator.

Manuel



RE: Happy v1.6.

1999-09-30 Thread Frank A. Christoph

 Since ghc-4.04 confuguration insists one has Happy v1.6, has this
 actually been released?  I see no link to it from the usually suspect
 sites.

 If it's Imminent, can a make the modest suggestion that it have a
 standalone makefile in it?  Having to slot it into a ghc source
 build tree has always struck me as both inconvemient, and overkill.

It looks like the Happy page is out of date. The version in CVS is 1.6 or
better. If you need Linux or Solaris binaries, you can try Michael Weber's
page:

http://www-i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Software/Haskell/

--FC