On Thursday 29 May 2003 12:48 am, Mike Thomas wrote: > 1. That Greencard and HDirect have been lagging behind the mainstream of > GHC library changes for some time now - it has been hard to get them in > step through the major FFI and library changes because few people have the > time and/or knowledge to deal with the problems.
Including them in distributions, make trees, etc doesn't seem to help that. They have been in the tree/ distrib for some time and that hasn't prevented them from lagging. > My premise is that Win32 has been distributed as part of GHC for many > years. > Given that the Unix/Posix libs are too, I think that it would be nice to > see Windows given the same courtesy. But there is a strong push to reduce the number of libraries shipped with GHC. Since there's no reason to include win32 in the distro, why not leave it out? We have to start somewhere. If it proves inconvenient to users to have to download 2 packages and install them in the right order, then we'll know we'll have a serious problem when we move to having a dozen packages. > To that end I wanted to make it > possible for Greencard to be more easily integrated into the nightly GHC > build mechanism as, of course, Win32 depends on it. I'm fine with testing it, testing win32, etc. but don't want to have to wire it into the ghc build tree to do so. I see them as separate packages which just happen to use the fpconfig and glafp-utils packages too. Sorry if I seem to be rejecting your offer to help. At the moment I just want to get greencard, win32, x11 and hgl out the door. I'm tired of endlessly tweaking makefiles... -- Alastair Reid _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
