[Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread Alexandru Scvortov
Hi, I've got an idea for a Summer of Code project and I'd really appreciate some feedback on it. If people generally find it interesting, I'll go into more detail. GSoC: Haskell JVM bytecode library == What I'm thinking of writing a library for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread John Meacham
This is certainly something I could use. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread Brian Alliet
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:01:57PM +, Alexandru Scvortov wrote: I'm thinking of writing a library for analyzing/generating/manipulating JVM bytecode. To be clear, this library would allow one to load and work with JVM classfiles; it wouldn't be a compiler, interpretor or a GHC backend.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread Chris Eidhof
We've used this library to generate a prototype JVM backend for UHC about a year ago, and it Just Worked. That was probably on 6.10 or 6.8. -chris On 26 mrt 2010, at 21:33, Brian Alliet wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 08:01:57PM +, Alexandru Scvortov wrote: I'm thinking of writing a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread Alexandru Scvortov
How stable is it? Was it easy to use? Did it have enough documentation? Do you think it could use a rewrite? If so, what should be done differently? Could it be extended into something more? (sorry for the barrage of questions, but you're the one person I've seen so far, apart from the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GSOC idea: Haskell JVM bytecode library

2010-03-26 Thread Chris Eidhof
On 26 mrt 2010, at 22:37, Alexandru Scvortov wrote: How stable is it? I don't know. I remember that we didn't have to change anything and that everything just worked. Was it easy to use? Actually yes, because: Did it have enough documentation? I think we used the Java documentation. The