Benjamin Franksen wrote:
Assume library A uses library B. Then, presumably, lib A must chose a mount
point for its use of lib B. Now imagine a program P wants to use lib A as
well as directly import some module from lib B. Is P now free to give lib B
its own mount point, independent of the one t
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> | > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting
> |
> | It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to
> | take both the package name *and* the mountpoint?
> |
> | Otherwise, this looks like what I've wanted all along, if only I knew
>
| > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting
|
| It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to
| take both the package name *and* the mountpoint?
|
| Otherwise, this looks like what I've wanted all along, if only I knew
it ;-).
I think most of you know
> What about packages with multiple module trees like, say, Cabal?
That's a good question, and I think the right answer is not to do
anything special to support them. I assume that what you're referring
to with Cabal is that there is no common prefix for all of the module
names, but rather a small
Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to
>> take both the package name *and* the mountpoint?
> My intention was that -package-base specifies a base for the package
> specified in the preceding -package flag [...]
> In other w
On 10/30/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:03:32PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting
>
> It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base fl
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 10:03:32PM -0400, Samuel Bronson wrote:
> On 10/25/06, Frederik Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageMounting
>
> It looks nice, but don't you think the -package-base flag ought to
> take both the package name *and* the moun
| Subject: Package "mounting" proposal
|
| Hi lists,
|
| (I hope my cross-posting is okay, but somehow this post seems to apply
to
| all of you, so here goes...)
I think 'libraries' is the list that anyone interested in this will hang
out, so I'll reply there alone
Simon
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(By the way, sorry about cross-posting again. People have already
replied to just 'haskell@' and just 'libraries@' but I'll try to stick
to 'libraries@' after this since it seems that some users' mail
clients show them two copies otherwise)
> This idea has been raised before, but it was a while ba
