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changeset | 9 | <title>The Isabelle System Distribution</title> | 
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| 14 | <h1>The Isabelle System Distribution</h1> | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | <h2>Version information</h2> | |
| 17 | ||
| 11575 | 18 | This is the internal repository version of Isabelle. See the | 
| 19 | <tt>NEWS</tt> file in the distribution for details on user-relevant | |
| 20 | changes. | |
| 3259 | 21 | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | <h2>System requirements</h2> | |
| 24 | ||
| 11575 | 25 | Isabelle requires a real Unix box with sufficient resources, say 64 MB | 
| 26 | of free main memory and a decent CPU. Speaking by today's hardware | |
| 27 | standards, any moderate Linux box should give a very nice platform for | |
| 28 | Isabelle. | |
| 3259 | 29 | |
| 30 | <p> | |
| 31 | ||
| 6077 | 32 | Furthermore, Isabelle needs the following software, which is not part | 
| 33 | of the distribution: | |
| 3259 | 34 | <ul> | 
| 13016 | 35 | <li>A full Standard ML Compiler (e.g. Poly/ML). | 
| 36 | <li>The GNU bash shell (version 1.x or 2.x). | |
| 37 | <li>Perl 5.x - the Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (Perl 4.x | |
| 6077 | 38 | is <em>not</em> sufficient). | 
| 3259 | 39 | </ul> | 
| 40 | ||
| 41 | <p> | |
| 42 | ||
| 43 | The following ML system and platform combinations are known to work | |
| 6077 | 44 | very well: | 
| 3259 | 45 | <ul> | 
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changeset | 46 | <li>Poly/ML 4.x on Linux/x86, Solaris/Sparc, and PowerPC platforms. | 
| 13016 | 47 | <li>SML/NJ 110.x on any Unix platform (Linux, Suns, SGI etc.). | 
| 3259 | 48 | </ul> | 
| 49 | ||
| 8809 | 50 | <p> <a href="http://www.polyml.org/">Poly/ML</a>, previously a | 
| 51 | commercial product, is back in the free world. It is by far the best | |
| 52 | compiler for running Isabelle, requiring the least memory and offering | |
| 53 | the highest performance. | |
| 3259 | 54 | |
| 14007 | 55 | <p> <a href="http://smlnj.sourceforge.net/">SML/NJ</a> needs more | 
| 56 | store and disk space, but on the other hand supports more platforms. | |
| 57 | The current official release is 110. | |
| 3259 | 58 | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | <h2>Installation</h2> | |
| 61 | ||
| 14007 | 62 | Binary packages are available for Isabelle/HOL and ZF for several | 
| 63 | platforms from the Isabelle web page. The system may be easily built | |
| 64 | from scratch as well, taking the traditional tar.gz source | |
| 65 | distribution. See file <tt>INSTALL</tt> as distributed with Isabelle | |
| 66 | for more information. | |
| 8809 | 67 | |
| 6486 | 68 | Further background information may be found in the <em>Isabelle System | 
| 69 | Manual</em>, distributed with the sources (directory <tt>doc</tt>). | |
| 3259 | 70 | |
| 71 | ||
| 9927 | 72 | <h2>User interface</h2> | 
| 6077 | 73 | |
| 9927 | 74 | The canonical Isabelle user interface is <a | 
| 14298 | 75 | href="http://proofgeneral.inf.ed.ac.uk/">Proof General</a> by David Aspinall | 
| 10079 | 76 | and others. It is a generic (X)Emacs interface for proof assistants, | 
| 77 | including Isabelle (both for the classic and Isar version). Proof | |
| 78 | General is suitable for use by pacifists and Emacs militants | |
| 79 | alike. Its most prominent feature is script management, providing a | |
| 80 | metaphor of <em>live proof script editing</em>. Proof General has | |
| 81 | recently gained a rather large following of both beginning and expert | |
| 82 | users of Isabelle. | |
| 8809 | 83 | |
| 9927 | 84 | <p> | 
| 8809 | 85 | |
| 14007 | 86 | Proof General is distributed together with the XEmacs | 
| 13141 | 87 | <a href="http://x-symbol.sourceforge.net"> | 
| 9927 | 88 | X-Symbol package</a>, which provides a nice way to get proper | 
| 89 | mathematical symbols displayed on screen. | |
| 8809 | 90 | |
| 3306 | 91 | |
| 3259 | 92 | <h2>Other sources of information</h2> | 
| 93 | ||
| 8809 | 94 | <h3>The Isabelle Page</h3> | 
| 95 | ||
| 96 | The Isabelle home page may be accessed both from Cambridge and Munich: | |
| 97 | ||
| 98 | <ul> | |
| 99 | ||
| 13016 | 100 | <li><a | 
| 8809 | 101 | href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/HVG/Isabelle/">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/HVG/Isabelle/</a> | 
| 102 | ||
| 13016 | 103 | <li><a href="http://isabelle.in.tum.de">http://isabelle.in.tum.de</a> | 
| 8809 | 104 | |
| 105 | </ul> | |
| 106 | ||
| 107 | ||
| 3259 | 108 | <h3>Mailing list</h3> | 
| 109 | ||
| 8809 | 110 | The electronic mailing list <tt>isabelle-users@cl.cam.ac.uk</tt> | 
| 3259 | 111 | provides a forum for Isabelle users to discuss problems and exchange | 
| 8809 | 112 | information. To join, send a message to <a | 
| 113 | href="mailto:isabelle-users-request@cl.cam.ac.uk">isabelle-users-request@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>. | |
| 3259 | 114 | |
| 115 | ||
| 116 | <h3>Personal mail</h3> | |
| 117 | ||
| 118 | <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/lcp/">Lawrence C Paulson</a><br> | |
| 119 | Computer Laboratory<br> | |
| 120 | University of Cambridge<br> | |
| 14628 | 121 | JJ Thomson Avenue<br> | 
| 122 | Cambridge CB3 0FD<br> | |
| 3259 | 123 | England<br> | 
| 124 | <br> | |
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changeset | 125 | E-mail: <A HREF="mailto:lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk">lcp@cl.cam.ac.uk</A><br> | 
| 14629 | 126 | Phone: +44-223-763500<br> | 
| 3259 | 127 | Fax: +44-223-334748<br> | 
| 128 | ||
| 129 | <p> | |
| 130 | or | |
| 131 | <p> | |
| 132 | ||
| 5401 | 133 | <a href="http://www.in.tum.de/~nipkow/">Tobias Nipkow</a><br> | 
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changeset | 134 | Institut fr Informatik<br> | 
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changeset | 135 | Technische Universit� Mnchen<br> | 
| 14622 | 136 | Boltzmannstr. 3<br> | 
| 137 | D-85748 Garching<br> | |
| 3259 | 138 | Germany<br> | 
| 139 | <br> | |
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changeset | 140 | E-mail: <A HREF="mailto:nipkow@in.tum.de">nipkow@in.tum.de</A><br> | 
| 14622 | 141 | Phone: +49-89-289-17302<br> | 
| 142 | Fax: +49-89-289-17307<br> | |
| 3259 | 143 | <p> | 
| 144 | ||
| 145 | <hr> | |
| 146 | ||
| 147 | Please report any problems you encounter. While we shall try to be | |
| 5665 | 148 | helpful, we can accept no responsibility for the deficiencies of | 
| 3259 | 149 | Isabelle and their consequences. | 
| 150 | ||
| 151 | <hr> | |
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