Re: Announce: nhc98-1.0pre19



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Jose Romildo Malaquias (romildo@urano.iceb.ufop.br)
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 08:45:00 -0300


I have built RPM packages for nhc98-1.0pre19. They are available at ftp://urano.iceb.ufop.br/pub/nhc98/ I have compiled it on a Red Hat Linux 6.2 (with updates) box. Note that I have not extensively tested the package. Romildo =========================================================== On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:24:51PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > A new pre-release of the nhc98 Haskell Compiler, nhc98-1.0pre19, is now > available in the usual place: > > http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/nhc98/ > > Changes between pre18 and pre19 are: > > * New: "hmake interactive" - a brand new Hugs-like > interpreter for interactive development. > > * New: Implementations of the standard Time and CPUTime > libraries. All standard libraries are now implemented > in normal and profiling versions. > > * Big Change: Until recently, the normal/profiling and tracing > versions of the Prelude and Libraries have been > kept in separate source trees. The normal set is > Haskell'98 compliant, the tracing set was 1.3 and > incomplete. We have now merged the two sets so that > all the libraries which actually build for tracing > are genuinely Haskell'98. There are still several > libraries that don't compile for tracing yet, but this > is nevertheless a big step forward to improving the > tracing experience. > > * Change: The trace browser command has now been renamed > <tt>rtb</tt> for "Redex Trail Browser". > > * Bugfix: IO.hgetLine was broken. > > > We are currently building up to a full release which will contain even > more tracing/debugging goodies, so this is an interim pre-release to > try to shake out any remaining bugs. We'd be especially pleased for > users to test out many of the recently introduced facilities like > "hmake interactive", and the primitive FFI, and let us know of any > problems there. > > Regards, > Malcolm > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send a message containing the word `unsubscribe' to: > nhc-users-request@cs.york.ac.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias <romildo@iceb.ufop.br> Departamento de Computação Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto Brasil


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