[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE slot-lambda

[Tillmann Rendel]

Hi,

Ducis asked about SugarHaskell:
> Does it depend on Stratego/XT?

SugarHaskell uses Stratego and SDF, but all necessary tools are bundled, 
so you only need a Java virtual machine (and maybe a Java compiler, not 
sure). Most of the tools are bundled as Java class files. Two tools 
(sdf2table and implodePT) are bundled as a statically linked executable 
for common platforms. On a non-common platform, you would have to 
compile these from their C sources.

There is a release of SugarHaskell on hackage:

   http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sugarhaskell

The tarball consists mostly of *.jar files and native executables. 
Looking at the timestamp, this is obviously outdated, but it should work 
and give you a first impression. I'm sure an updated release on Hackage 
could be provided.

(Eclipse is the main platform for SugarHaskell and the other Sugar 
languages, because we want to provide extensible syntax highlighting and 
other editor features. The process for making the Hackage release was to 
write a simple driver for the command-line interface that essentially 
calls java with the right parameters, and figure out which *.jar files 
from an Eclipse installation we need to bundle to make it work. The 
latter was done manually, and could be done manually again for a more 
recent SugarHaskell-in-Eclipse installation).

   Tillmann