On 5 Jun 2013, at 16:47, Austin Seipp wrote:
> testsuite and base are also useful for other compilers,
> such as nhc98 (and indeed, nhc uses base itself.)
Useful, perhaps, but not actually used in practice. Since the base library
repo moved from darcs to git, I think that ghc is the only compiler that uses
it. (Maybe the jhc, uhc, or Helium people could refute that though.)
For a long, long time, the close coupling between ghc and the base library has
been obvious. I have long since given up trying to pretend that base is
portable - it is not. It is ghc-specific. I don't think it should be. That
is a crazy architecture. But it is the way it is. Maybe it is time for
everyone else to stop pretending too.
Regards,
Malcolm
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