RE: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Victor GHC is supposed to be extensible, via its API, so your questions are good ones. However, there are things that that the API doesn't support, or supports badly, so it is not cast in stone. Please suggest improvements -- and better still implement them. GHC evolves largely in response

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-03 Thread Jens Petersen
We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.2.1: Thanks! I have done a test build in Fedora's buildsystem: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3249014 If you want to try it, you should be able to download and install it as follows: $ lftp

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Victor Nazarov
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Victor GHC is supposed to be extensible, via its API, so your questions are good ones.  However, there are things that that the API doesn't support, or supports badly, so it is not cast in stone.  Please

Re: occasional linking problems with --make?

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02/08/2011 06:52, Evan Laforge wrote: Just as an addendum, this just happened again, but I got new errors this time. Make gave the usual: Linking build/test/RunTests ... Undefined symbols: _UiziTrackC_d28LF, referenced from: _s28UI_info in TrackC.o _UiziRulerC_dk8C, referenced

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Victor Nazarov
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:56 AM, John Lask jvl...@hotmail.com wrote: On 3/08/2011 2:10 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 00:31, John Laskjvl...@hotmail.com  wrote: What is really required is a pluggable back-end infrastructure - whereby various back-ends could be maintained

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03/08/2011 11:09, Victor Nazarov wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: So perhaps that's the problem. parseDynamicFlags could perfectly well simply return any un-recognised flags. Indeed, I thought it did just that -- it certainly

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02/08/2011 13:52, Rene de Visser wrote: Ian Lynaghig...@earth.li schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20110729182136.ga2...@matrix.chaos.earth.li... We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.2.1: Is it normal for the windows build to have 99 unexpected failures?

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Christiaan Baaij
Hi, So perhaps that's the problem. parseDynamicFlags could perfectly well simply return any un-recognised flags. Indeed, I thought it did just that -- it certainly returns a list of un-consumed arguments. If it doesn't perhaps that's a bug. parseDynamicFlags returns un-consumed

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:55, Christiaan Baaij christiaan.ba...@gmail.comwrote: So perhaps that's the problem. parseDynamicFlags could perfectly well simply return any un-recognised flags. Indeed, I thought it did just that -- it certainly returns a list of un-consumed arguments. If it

Re: occasional linking problems with --make?

2011-08-03 Thread Evan Laforge
Can you save the state at some point when the error happen?  Preferably when using --make rather than GHCi.  Just tar/zip the whole directory and send it to us, with instructions to reproduce the error.  What platform is this BTW? Sure, I'll do that next time it comes up. It'll be a couple

Re: GHCJS

2011-08-03 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:44:10AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: On 03/08/2011 11:09, Victor Nazarov wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: So perhaps that's the problem. parseDynamicFlags could perfectly well simply return any un-recognised

System.Process.system in Windows

2011-08-03 Thread wagnerdm
Hello all, I had a bit of fun recently tracking down quoting issues with the system command in Windows. For the examples below, I'll consistently use Windows as the beginning of some text sent to the Windows command prompt cmd.exe, and use GHC as the beginning of some text sent to a

Re: System.Process.system in Windows

2011-08-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 18:57, wagne...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: (And in any case, the examples above should answer this amusing comment, immediately following those lines: -- We don't want to put the cmd into a single -- argument, because cmd.exe will not try to split it up.

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.2.1 Release Candidate 1

2011-08-03 Thread Jens Petersen
On 3 August 2011 19:01, Jens Petersen j...@community.haskell.org wrote: Thanks!  I have done a test build in Fedora's buildsystem: (Note this is a bootstrap build without shared libraries.) Ok I did a more normal build today with shared libs and ran the testsuite too: