On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 03:51:57PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
> Using Haskell programs and libraries with different compilers and/or
> interpreters (or even with different versions of the same system!) is
> currently quite a frustrating experience. This is can be attributed to
> the following problems:
[snip]
And:
no versioning of standard and run-time system libraries (unlike C)
At least in the case of GHC.
By way of explanation, I can have libc4, libc5 and libc6 happily
coexist on my system. The run-time loader knows which programs need
which library.
This would go some way to alleviating the hassles with compiler and
RTS changes. I'm not sure how much work this would involve!
Giuliano.
