Isaac Dupree wrote:
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Another possibility that occured to me recently, is to switch Integer
to a simpler (perhaps even pure-Haskell) representation, and provide
(core? extra? Hackage?) a hsgmp package. If you have big numbers,
switching is easy:
import Prelude hiding(Integ
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Another possibility that occured to me recently, is to switch Integer
to a simpler (perhaps even pure-Haskell) representation, and provide
(core? extra? Hackage?) a hsgmp package. If you have big numbers,
switching is easy:
import Prelude hiding(Integer)
import Data.Integ
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:32:36AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | There is an interest in removing GMP, motivated partly by licensing but
> | also due to portabiltity concerns and the fact that the use of GHC's
> | memory manager in GMP prevents FFI code from using GMP safely.
> |
> | http://
| > I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start any
| > kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was
| > wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
| > runtime so that it would be possible to distribute native executables
Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
.. For example, the LGPL requires you to give permission to people
to reverse engineer your application... thus it may
not even be possible for me to comply with the terms of the LGPL.
>From the LGPL v3:
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
> > Sounds to me like the simlest solution for you would be if GHC could use
> > a dynamically linked gmp.dll on Windows. That also sounds like much less
> > work that replacing gmp completely.
> This would certainly make things easier though
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
... I was
wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
runtime
... http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes
Thanks for the link.
... although the program
inclu
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:41 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
> Hi,
> I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start
> any kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was
> wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
> runtime so tha
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
>
> I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start
> any kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was
> wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
> runtime
I'
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote:
> Hi,
> I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start any
> kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was
> wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the
> runtime
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