Hugs98 Oct2002 release candidate available

[Sigbjorn Finne]

A new release of Hugs98 is just around the corner, introducing
a number of worthwhile extensions and enhancements (see
announcement blurb at the end of this message.)

To help us flush out any remaining issues/bugs, a release candidate
is now available for test use. The dev. team is very keen on
having Hugs users try out this new release, and report back any
issues they may into to hugs-bugs@haskell.org

The release candidate is available in source form (and for the
benefit of Win32 users, a binary distribution) from

    http://cvs.haskell.org/Hugs/downloads/Oct2002/

thanks
--sigbjorn

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   We are pleased to announce a new release of Hugs98, an interpreter
   and programming environment for developing Haskell programs.
   Sources and binaries are freely available on the World-Wide Web.

   Feature highlights of this new release are:

   - Much improved FFI support (contributed by Alastair Reid), bringing
     Hugs really very close to the Haskell FFI specification.
   - Adoption of a significant subset of GHC's hierarchical libraries
     (hard work contributed by Ross Paterson.)
   - An (allegedly) complete implementation of the Haskell98 module
     system.
   - Numerous bug fixes since the previous major release in Dec 2001.

   The home page for Hugs is at http://haskell.org/hugs.

   Send email to hugs-users-request@haskell.org to join the hugs-users
   mailing list.  Bug reports should be sent to hugs-bugs@haskell.org.

   Send email to hugs-bugs-request@haskell.org to subscribe to the
   hugs-bugs list.

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 The Hugs 98 system is Copyright (c) Mark P Jones, Alastair Reid, the
 Yale Haskell Group, and the OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU,
 1994-2002, All rights reserved.  It is distributed as free software under
 the license in the file "License", which is included in the distribution.
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