> could you explain the state of the ghc project?
>
> ghc-4.03-Win32 was announced, with the un-expected (for me) set of
> features. Some people talk of ghc-4.03 for Linux ...
What "unexpected features"?
4.03 for Win32 was released because some of the features were needed for the
latest H/Direct. A general 4.03 release hasn't been done yet.
The next release of GHC will likely be 4.04, so as not to confuse it with
the interim 4.03 Win32 release.
> Are there the *sources* available for ghc-4.03 to compile for Unix,
> Linux-i386 ?
Yes - from the CVS repository. See the GHC web page.
The sources are in pretty good shape right now, and performance is improved
over 4.02. The compiler itself is a bit slow, and this is the main thing we
need to look at before putting together the next release.
> Maybe, "Ghc/Hugs" would do what i need?
> I mean the "real" features, like
> * fast small Integer,
> * relaxed restrictions on overlaps.
Ghc/Hugs is still in the early stages of development. We'll keep this list
updated as things start to work.
Cheers,
Simon
