This is the May 2006 release of Hugs, superseding the March 2005 interim release.

Summary of changes

Packaged distributions for specific systems

Microsoft Windows

The Windows installer was prepared by Neil Mitchell, and includes the graphical interface WinHugs. Choose either:

• WinHugs-May2006.exe (12.6 MB): WinHugs, other programs, and a large collection of libraries.

• MinHugs-May2006.exe (1.5 MB) WinHugs and a minimal collection of libraries.

Fedora Core (Linux)

Packages for i386, x86_64 and ppc are included in Fedora Extras, thanks to Gérard Milmeister and Jens Petersen.

FreeBSD

A fresh port has been contributed by Volker Stolz.

Mac OS X

A port (maintained by Gregory Wright) is available on Darwinports.

Packages for other systems will be listed here as they become available. In the meantime, you might like to use the previous release.

Source distributions

Choose either:

• Interpreter and a large collection of library packages: hugs98-plus-May2006.tar.gz (5.6 MB).

• Interpreter and essential library packages: hugs98-May2006.tar.gz (2.7 MB), with other libraries available as separate Cabal packages.

The command to build is just `make' in the top-level directory. (For options, see the file `docs/building/unix.txt' included in the bundle.) Note also:

• Some of the library packages are built only if the system you're building on is set up for compilation with certain C libraries. In particular you get the Haskell X11 and HGL packages only if X11 libraries are present, and the OpenGL, GLUT, OpenAL and ALUT packages only if the corresponding C libraries are available.

• To build the Cabal packages, you'll need cpphs and hsc2hs. For the former, you can use either the cpphs-hugs installed with Hugs or a cpphs compiled with some Haskell compiler. For the latter, only hschs-hugs will do: the version installed by GHC produces GHC-specific output.

• To report a bug in this version of Hugs, please either use the bug tracking system on the Hugs development page or send a message to hugs-bugs@haskell.org.

• To ask a question about using Hugs, please send a message to hugs-users@haskell.org.

• To ask a question about Haskell, please check the Haskell web site at haskell.org for further details, or send your message to haskell-cafe@haskell.org.

Please do not send direct mail to the authors or maintainers of Hugs if one of the above addresses would be more appropriate. We do read these mailing lists --- but so do many other people, who might be able to give you more appropriate or timely advice than us!

The Hugs 98 system is Copyright © Mark P Jones, Alastair Reid, the Yale Haskell Group, and the OGI School of Science & Engineering at OHSU, 1994-2004, All rights reserved. It is distributed as free software under a BSD-style license, which is included in the distribution in the file "License".