7 <title>The Isabelle System Distribution</title>
12 <h1>The Isabelle System Distribution</h1>
14 <h2>Version information</h2>
16 This is the internal repository version of Isabelle. Starting with
17 Isabelle98, the current line of Isabelle introduces many new features,
18 but also some imcompatibilities with Isabelle94-XX. See the
19 <tt>NEWS</tt> file in the distribution for more details.
22 <h2>System requirements</h2>
24 Isabelle requires a real Unix box with sufficient resources. Fun
25 starts at about 32MB of memory (somewhat depending on your ML system),
26 with several tens of MB disk space and a relatively fast CPU.
30 Furthermore, it needs the following software, which is not part of the
33 <li> A full Standard ML Compiler (e.g. Poly/ML or SML of New Jersey).
34 <li> The GNU bash shell (version 1.x or 2.x).
35 <li> Perl 5.x - the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
40 The following ML system and platform combinations are known to work
43 <li> Poly/ML versions 2.x and 3.1 on Suns.
44 <li> SML/NJ 0.93 on Suns and SGIs. There seem to be several
45 problems with Linux and HP-UX.
46 <li> SML/NJ versions 109.27 to 109.33 on Suns, Linux, etc.
47 <li> SML/NJ 110 on Suns, Linux, etc.
53 href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/what/smlnj/software.html">SML/NJ</a>
54 needs lots of store and disk space, but it is free. The current
55 official release is 110. We also still support the old 0.93 release
56 and working versions 109.27 to 109.33.
60 <a href="http://www.ahl.co.uk/poly-ml.html">Poly/ML</a> is a
61 commercial product and costs money, but it is stable and efficient. It
62 requires relatively little memory (starting at about 16MB) and disk
63 space (about 60MB for all distributed object logics).
67 <a href="http://www.harlequin.com/products/ads/ml/">MLWorks</a> is a
68 commercial ML programming environment. Isabelle on MLWorks should be
69 still considered experimental!
76 See file <tt>INSTALL</tt> in the Isabelle sources on how to build the
77 system. Further background information may be found in the
78 <em>Isabelle System Manual</em>, distributed as <tt>dvi</tt> with the
84 The distribution includes only a very primitive interface based on
85 ordinary terminal sessions.<p>
87 <a href="ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/da/Isamode.tar.gz">Isamode</a> by
88 David Aspinall is a more elaborate interface for Isabelle. It runs
89 under recent versions of GNU Emacs and XEmacs, the latter being
90 recommended. It's useful to both novices and experts.
93 <h2>Other sources of information</h2>
97 The electronic mailing list <tt>isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk</tt>
98 provides a forum for Isabelle users to discuss problems and exchange
99 information. To join, send a message to
100 <tt>isabelle-users-request@cl.cam.ac.uk</tt>.
103 <h3>Personal mail</h3>
105 <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/lcp/">Lawrence C Paulson</a><br>
106 Computer Laboratory<br>
107 University of Cambridge<br>
109 Cambridge CB2 3QG<br>
112 E-mail: lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk<br>
113 Phone: +44-223-334600<br>
114 Fax: +44-223-334748<br>
120 <a href="http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de:80/~nipkow/">Tobias Nipkow</a><br>
121 Institut fuer Informatik<br>
126 E-mail: nipkow@informatik.tu-muenchen.de<br>
127 Phone: +49-89-289-22690<br>
128 Fax: +49-89-289-28183<br>
134 Please report any problems you encounter. While we shall try to be
135 helpful, we can accept no responsibility for the deficiences of
136 Isabelle and their consequences.