Re: unique identifiers as a separate library

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Marlow
a...@spamcop.net wrote: G'day all. Quoting Sebastian Fischer s...@informatik.uni-kiel.de: I have wrapped up (a tiny subset of) GHC's uniques into the package `uniqueid` and put it on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/uniqueid First off, thanks for

Re: unique identifiers as a separate library

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Marlow
Isaac Dupree wrote: Sebastian Fischer wrote: On Dec 17, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Would it be possible to put everything concerned with unique identifiers in GHC into a separate package on Hackage? I have wrapped up (a tiny subset of) GHC's uniques into the package

Re: Can't compile GHC 6.8.2

2008-12-19 Thread Simon Marlow
Uwe Hollerbach wrote: Hello Barney all, I've been following your messages with some interest, as I too have been trying to build a more-modern ghc on my G3 iMac running 10.3.9. I started with an existing 6.6.1 build, and tried to build 6.8.3; I'm finally at the point where I have something to

please test: cabal install now less eager to reinstall core packages

2008-12-19 Thread Duncan Coutts
Claus, Simon, You'll recall the cabal-install problem you noticed recently where it decides it wants to re-install some core library like array or containers or whatever. I'd appreciate it if you could test the darcs version of cabal-install and see if it is behaving better now. It was