Announcement: Alex has a new home

[Chris Dornan]

              Announcement: Alex under new license and management.

Alex, the Haskell-based scanner-generator, has been relicensed with a BSD-style 
license (it was under the GPL) in preparation for integration with Happy, the 
Haskell-based parser generator.  Isaac Jones has kindly and heroically 
undertaken this task of integrating the two packages.

As the two packages work quite well as they are it is expected that the first 
release of the combined packages will do little more than bundle them together, 
but we have ambitions to go further, and to better adapt the run-time behaviour 
of Alex-generated scanners to suit the big Haskell compilers such as GHC.

Until the integration has been completed the new home for Alex is

	http://www.syntaxpolice.org/~ijones/alex/

Please email Isaac (ijones@syntaxpolice.org) if you have any queries.

Cheers,

Chris Dornan
cdornan@arm.com