On Friday 16 March 2007 12:40, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > But the very reason that cpphs and hsc2hs are distributed with hugs and > nhc98 is for bootstrapping. If you don't already have a Haskell > compiler on your machine, then you can't install cpphs or hsc2hs. But > conversely, you can't install either of these compilers without them.
As I've just mentioned in another mail, I don't want to make cpphs and hsc2hs a prerequisite for any compiler/interpreter. GHC/Hugs/nhc should fetch these tools via their darcs-all script and use it for bootstrapping themselves, but they should *not* install these tools along with the compiler/interpreter in question. Even less should they have locally modified versions in their own repository. The reasons for this are avoiding redundant tools in the final installation, clashing licenses and modularity in general. > Let's not go the route of requiring a working ghc before you can install > any other compiler. Rest assured that this is definitely not my plan. :-) Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
