Chasing the Jones's, we are pleased to announce an interim release of Hugs98, primarily targeted at Unix systems to gain experience with new features, especially Cabal. It is available from the Hugs web page: http://www.haskell.org/hugs/ The new Cabal-based library build system has the potential to make building on Windows easier, but it's not there yet. Volunteers welcome. Feature highlights of this new release are: - The default current module is now the empty module Hugs.Base instead of the Prelude. - The Char type and the Char module now support Unicode as specified in the Haskell 98 Report (contributed by Dmitry Golubovsky). - The new -X option groups several options into one argument. - The syntax of the ffihugs command has changed: the +G and +L options are gone, and a new +i option can be used to specify include files. - Hugs now has basic support for Cabal. - Numerous bug fixes since the previous major release in Nov 2003. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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, 1994-2005, All rights reserved. It is distributed as free software under the license in the file "License", which is included in the distribution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------