ANNOUNCE: buddha 0.7 released

Bernard James POPE bjpop@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:09:22 +1000 (EST)


Announcing the release of buddha version 0.7
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   www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bjpop/buddha

Buddha is a declarative debugger for Haskell 98. It is based on program
transformation and relies on GHC version 5.04 or greater (but not version 6
yet). It also needs GHC's libraries compiled for profiling.

New in this release:

   - support for deriving Eq, Ord, Enum, Bounded, Show, Read,
   - more efficient transformation,
   - standard module Random now supported. 

Features still missing:

   - record syntax,
   - some standard libraries (notably: Ratio, Numeric, Directory, Time),
   - mutually recursive modules,
   - deriving Ix.

Platforms supported:

   - tested on linux, Mac OSX,
   - (should work in any unix-like environment),
   - not tested on Windows (sorry).

Note that buddha does not yet work with GHC version 6.0. This will be fixed
in coming releases.

Cheers,
Bernie.