[jhc] Re: ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.5

[Christian Maeder]

John Meacham schrieb:
> Announcing jhc 0.7.5! This mainly fixes some bugs that came up in
> peoples testing of 0.7.4 and includes a lot more libraries in the
> standard install and better standards support.
> 
>   http://repetae.net/computer/jhc/
> 
> Any testing people can do with the new garbage collector -fjgc would be
> greatly appreciated! As far as I know, this release has no regressions
> when using the new GC, so it will be enabled by default if I get no
> reports of problems with this release.
> 
> Major changes
> 
>  * The Garbage Collector now fully supports the Windows, OSX 10.5 (leapord),
>    and OSX 10.6 (snow leapord) targets.
>  * Lots of libraries, now that I have a somewhat general script to
>    cut through the cabal the following are now included with the default
>    install

I would like to see the haskell98 part of parsec-2.

Cheers Christian

>      - haskell98
>      - flat-foreign (CForegin, etc..)
>      - jhc
>      - base (not the same as ghcs base, close enough for most tasks though)
>      - applicative
>      - containers
>      - Diff
>      - html
>      - HUnit
>      - pretty
>      - safe
>      - smallcheck
>      - utility-ht
>      - xhtml
>  * updates to base libraries to bring them closer to haskell 2010 and ghc base.
>      - updated Functor and Applicative
>      - added Debug.Trace
>      - added a few functions in h2010 not in h98
>  * support for adding valgrind annotations to generated source for
>    debugging the RTS.
>  * support for having the generated code annotate every heap location with
>    useful profiling/debugging info. useful for debugging the RTS.
>  * support for passing --win to the regression test driver to run all the
>    tests cross-compiled for windows.
>  * The Big HsName cleanup, finally got rid of old alegebraic HsName in favor
>    of abstract Name and its faster operations, faster typechecking/frontend and
>    code simplification opprotunities result.
>  * improve the selftest.
>  * bug fixes
> 
>         John
>