Re: RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

2014-01-26 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello, My input is this: I think a lot of confusion stems from some documentation that just needs to be cleared up. I think that just cleaning up the pages so that: * http://www.haskell.org/cabal has binaries for Tier 1 platforms: OS X, Windows, FreeBSD i386/amd64, Linux i386/amd64. IMO, there

Re: Static values language extension proposal

2014-01-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Tim Watson wrote: > In Erlang, I can rpc/send *any* term and evaluate it on another node. That > includes functions of course. Whether or not we want to be quite that > general is another matter, but that is the comparison I've been making. > Note that Erlang gets

Re: Static values language extension proposal

2014-01-26 Thread Tim Watson
On 25 Jan 2014, at 18:12, Carter Schonwald wrote: > 1) you should (once 7.8 is out) evaluate how far you can push your ideas wrt > dynamic loading as a user land library. > If you can't make it work as a library and can demonstrate why (or how even > though it works its not quite satisfactory),

Re: [Haskell-iPhone] GHC iOS ARMv7/ARMv7s fat support completed

2014-01-26 Thread Schell Scivally
Awesome! I'll be spinning this up soon. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Luke Iannini wrote: > Hi folks, > > Happy to report that I've finished an approach to armv7/armv7s fat > compilation, just in time for 7.8's imminent release. > > You'll find the necessary scripts here: > https://github.com

Re: RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

2014-01-26 Thread Daniil Frumin
cabal-install doesn't even have to be distributed in one tar.gz with GHC, just merely mentioning cabal-install binaries on http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download will surely help (assuming we get to actually have the cabal-install binaries :) On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:48 PM, Gábor Lehel wrote: > +1

GHC iOS ARMv7/ARMv7s fat support completed

2014-01-26 Thread Luke Iannini
Hi folks, Happy to report that I've finished an approach to armv7/armv7s fat compilation, just in time for 7.8's imminent release. You'll find the necessary scripts here: https://github.com/ghc-ios/ghc-ios-scripts and the latest instructions for building GHC for iOS usage here: https://ghc.haske