[gentoo-dev] retirement

2008-04-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
of platforms. I feel I should also apologise to jer for constantly breaking ghc on hppa ;-). Thanks also to jakub for his work filtering and redirecting bugs to us, along with the occasional helpful insight. Best of luck everyone. -- Duncan Coutts : (ex-)Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Duncan Coutts
for sharing the link. Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix? It's quite a radical departure and requires more accurate information about packages. We'll see how the NixOS people get on. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
specifications. http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

2008-02-03 Thread Duncan Coutts
update # add a new ebuild into the local overlay hackport merge xmonad -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)

2007-11-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
! If you like beautiful code with firm mathematical underpinnings and a slight lack of real applications you'll love Haskell ;-) You're most welcome to come chat with us in #gentoo-haskell -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages.gentoo.org lives!

2007-11-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
in our team. It's really great to have it back. Thanks to everybody that worked on this: - jokey, starting this version - cla, the visual template for this version - robbat2, way too much coding and infra wrangling Thanks folks. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- [EMAIL

[gentoo-dev] New leader for Haskell team

2007-06-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
I'm pleased to announce that Lennart Kolmodin (kolmodin) is taking over from me as the Haskell team lead. He will be continuing our plans towards world domination, starting with getting ghc-6.6.x and related libs into a sane state and into portage. All hail our new Haskell overlord. -- Duncan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love

2006-11-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
new ebuilds. You'll want to take a look at the Gentoo developer handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml In particular here is the section on becoming a developer: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1chap=2 -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] a new TLP to unify programming langiages?

2006-10-11 Thread Duncan Coutts
and the related discussions). I'd certainly say 'yay' for the Haskell team. We'd be quite happy to be a sub-project of some prog lang TLP. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alexis Ballier (aballier)

2006-10-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
currently finishing his master degree in computer science (another one :P) and will be a PhD student next year. Yay, another one. I wonder how many gentoo devs have a PhD or are in the process of trying to get one... -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
releases because they 'darcs send' in their updates and we just take responsibility for QA and getting things into portage cvs. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
just darcs record; darcs send. Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto proxy developers. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
and correctly resolve deps for multiple haskell compilers. Fun stuff. :-) If portage people are interested in moving in this direction we have an experimental emerge-compatible mini dep-resolver which might be useful to prototype an extended ABI/SLOTing system. Duncan Coutts -- gentoo-dev

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:56, Duncan Coutts wrote: If we do go in this direction it'd be great to be able to slot on the ABI and still have dependencies resolved correctly. For example imagine having parallel python-2.3 and 2.4

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:27 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: Duncan Coutts wrote: So my point is, I don't think it can be simply dismissed as ABI nonsense that we don't have to deal with. Being able to SLOT on the compiler flavour (and possibly version) would allow us to do useful things

Re: [gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass

2006-05-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
Since there were no objections the darcs.eclass is now in the main tree. On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 22:58 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: Just like we have eclasses for cvs, tla etc, kosmikus has written one that does the same thing but for darcs. Darcs (dev-util/darcs) is one of the new breed

[gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass

2006-05-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
into the tree and of course we would appreciate code review etc. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-31 Thread Duncan Coutts
is ok on hppa and mips hppa should be easy, ghc already works there. We're working on getting ghc working on mips (it works fine on Irix) but no promises. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
overflow on mips linux.) -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
for win32 and OSX. The OpenBSD, FreeBSD Darwin ports systems include ghc. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:32 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 + Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for linux (some older

Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
that with all my recent emails on the issue of which arches/platforms can run darcs I've not been giving the impression that I'm pushing for darcs to be the one true choice. I am certainly interested in working with any arch team to get ghc and darcs ported but that's a separate issue. -- Duncan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
users will not use them and we'll just get the contributers we want. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
and the write access allows for a safe intermediate stage in the recruitment process between AT and dev status. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
bugs to fixing them and getting those changes back to our testers. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
to have our flags updated whenever the user changes profile. Does anyone have any other suggestions? -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:35, Duncan Coutts wrote: gcc-3 supports both -nopie and -fno-stack-protector. So always using these would be ok if it were not for gcc-4 which doesn't grok -fno-stack-protector. yes it does Oh. I had

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:41 +, Roy Marples wrote: On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:41, solar wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:17 +, Duncan Coutts wrote: I presume it's a gentoo patch to gcc-4 to add back in -fno-stack-protector? For the 4.0.x it should be just a dummy call

Re: [gentoo-dev] check-reqs conditionals

2006-02-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
this machine + einfo does not have enough RAM for it. This will have the effect + einfo of making binaries produced by ghc considerably larger. + echo SplitObjs=NO mk/build.mk + fi -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98

2006-02-10 Thread Duncan Coutts
nhc98 is a Haskell compiler. This package has been masked for several months because its memory management system makes assumptions that are no longer true on 2.6 kernels. This is not easily fixable and the upstream devs no not have the time or inclination to rewrite the runtime system. See also

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-haskell/hugs98-graphics

2006-02-10 Thread Duncan Coutts
This package provides a simple graphics library for use with the hugs98 Haskell interpreter. It doesn't work with the older versions of hugs98 that are in portage. While it does work with newer versions of hugs98 it is unnecessary there because they come bundled with an updated version of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:42 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, let's review this again. If you cannot test a given ebuild on a given arch, then don't touch that arch's keyword (unless you need to remove it for broken dependencies). If you can