About Alex
Alex can always be obtained from its home page.
The latest source code lives in the git repository on GitHub
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Releases
Releases of Alex are published on Hackage. They are also given Git tags in the repository.
Reporting issues with Alex
Please report bugs on the Alex issue tracker. There are no specific mailing lists for the discussion of Alex-related matters, but such topics should be fine on the Haskell Cafe mailing list.
License
Copyright (c) 1995-2011, Chris Dornan and Simon Marlow. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the copyright holders, nor the names of the contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS”AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR APARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
Acknowledgments
Current Maintainers
Andreas Abel (@andreasabel)
John Ericson (@Ericson2314)
Simon Marlow (@simonmar)
Other contributors
The data is in the Git history. GitHub can render that in various ways.
The documentation itself
This documentation is based the original documentation written by Alex’s original authors using DocBook.
It was converted to reStructuredText / Sphinx / readthedocs.org by Andreas Abel in February 2022.