RE: Suggestion for GHC System User's Guide documentation change

2014-08-22 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
I'd be ok with this. It's a bit more verbose, but if it's less confusing for our users, then go for it. Thanks for offering to make a patch! SImon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Howard B. Golden | Sent: 21 August 2014 22:30 |

RE: Windows build fails -- again!

2014-08-22 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Friends My Windows build is still broken, and has been since Andreas's patch commit f9f89b7884ccc8ee5047cf4fffdf2b36df6832df on Tues 19th. Please can someone help? I'm begging. I suppose that if I hear nothing I can simply revert his patch but that seems like the Wrong Solution

Re: Windows build fails -- again!

2014-08-22 Thread Johan Tibell
I think reverting the patch (and notifying the author) is an OK course of action if it's affecting other people's work. I believe it's common practice at many other places. The patch can always be replied later, after fixing it. P.S. We should re-open the bug if we revert the patch (i.e. by git

RE: Suggestion for GHC System User's Guide documentation change

2014-08-22 Thread p.k.f.holzenspies
Marginally less verbose; why not use the language extension *only* in running text? Preferably with a link to the documentation of that language extension. In your example: | The language extension refUnicodeSyntax/ref enables Unicode characters to be | used to stand for certain ASCII

Re: Windows build fails -- again!

2014-08-22 Thread kyra
I've looked into this patch, it looks like this patch was intended to touch only linuxish IO Manager, but in fact it touched common (os unrelated) code here and there extensively and there are almost no chances somebody else (not the author) can fix the things. So, almost the only way to

Re: [GHC] #9496: Simplify primitives for short cut fusion

2014-08-22 Thread David Feuer
Yes, I meant producer there. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 9:36 AM, GHC ghc-devs@haskell.org wrote: #9496: Simplify primitives for short cut fusion -+- Reporter: dfeuer |Owner: dfeuer

Re: Suggestion for GHC System User's Guide documentation change

2014-08-22 Thread Howard B. Golden
p.k.f., I like your less verbose suggestion better than my original. I don't understand your comment about code examples: Are you supporting or opposing the inclusion of the LANGUAGE pragmas in the examples? Howard From: p.k.f.holzensp...@utwente.nl

Re: Windows build fails -- again!

2014-08-22 Thread Andreas Voellmy
I'm just noticing this thread now... sorry about the delay and the problems! I'll look into what happened here. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:04 AM, kyra ky...@mail.ru wrote: I've looked into this patch, it looks like this patch was intended to touch only linuxish IO Manager, but in fact it

Re: Windows build fails -- again!

2014-08-22 Thread Austin Seipp
I've reverted it in the mean time (4748f5936fe72d96edfa17b153dbfd84f2c4c053), sorry about that. I've spent some time working on a Windows Phabricator machine, so stay tuned! Andreas, if you need a Windows VM or something temporarily to test, do let me know. On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:00 PM,

Random maintainership -- Was: [core libraries] RE: Core libraries bug tracker

2014-08-22 Thread Ryan Newton
Dear core library folks others, On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Some core libraries (e.g. random) have a maintainer that isn’t the committee. Ah, since it came up, maybe this is a good time to discuss that particular maintainership. I'm

Re: Random maintainership -- Was: [core libraries] RE: Core libraries bug tracker

2014-08-22 Thread Edward Kmett
I'm pretty sure we'd be up for taking ownership of it as it is a rather fundamental piece of infrastructure in the community, and easily falls within our purview. That said, if you're concerned that you haven't been able to really push the random library forward the way it deserves to be pushed,