RE: Dynamic Libraries on MacOS X

2002-06-11 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-06-10 04:03, Simon Marlow wrote: It sounds like frameworks are similar in concept to GHC's packages. They solve a similar problem in a quite different way. A framework is a bundle: an actual directory with everything inside it, libraries, header files, localised strings, whatever,

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RE: Dynamic Libraries on MacOS X

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Marlow
And there's a problem: ghc-pkg uses Read, and that requires all the fields to be there. It would be a Bad Idea to force everyone to update every single package.conf file out there. Is there any special reason why it doesn't use the ParsePkgConf.y parser from compiler/main? (Simon: Am I

RE: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread Simon Marlow
I have a problem with the readline license that applies to ghc, and programs compiled with ghc. The readline library is under the GPL license. This means that any program (including ghc) that links with this library must itself be licensed under the GPL. *G* Yes, you're right. I

HGL with GHC in Win32

2002-06-11 Thread S.J.Thompson
Can anyone help? I would like to run a program using the Haskell Graphics Library under GHC on Windows. HGL is listed as a package (when ghc is asked about its packages) but not actually distributed as a package with ghc-5.02.3. On trying to remedy this, - I am able to compile HGL by

GHC Gentoo Linux package

2002-06-11 Thread Sven Moritz Hallberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, here it is. The GHC ebuild for Gentoo Linux has been incorporated in the official package tree (search http://www.gentoo.org/index-packages.html)! This means that it is available to anyone running Gentoo, so you can now safely claim to run on

Re: GHC Gentoo Linux package

2002-06-11 Thread Sven Moritz Hallberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11. June 2002 19:58, Sigbjorn Finne wrote: Sven Moritz Hallberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... 2) I read a comment somewhere (in some script or so) saying something along the lines of once we are cross-compiling. Are there

Re: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Thaller
I'm being provocative, I know. I'm not trying to insult though, just to encourage a creative discussion. Me too. But I've never seen a flame war on any haskell list, so I trust that no one will be insulted if we present our differing opinions in a strong way. We'll just have to take this

Re: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread Sven Moritz Hallberg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11. June 2002 21:49, Wolfgang Thaller wrote: I'm being provocative, I know. I'm not trying to insult though, just to encourage a creative discussion. Me too. But I've never seen a flame war on any haskell list, so I trust that no

GHC Ownership

2002-06-11 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-06-11 08:18, Simon Marlow wrote: This is *so* annoying when all we're trying to do is write free software here. This reminds me... who legally owns GHC? * the University of Glasgow? * Simon and Simon? * Microsoft? * many different people and institutions? -- Ashley

Re: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Reid
:) The question here is, are you (plural) really trying to write Free Software or just giving something away now, which will be closed and hogged later? The copyright holder(s) of a piece of software is free to change which license future copies are released under. It makes no difference

Re: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread John Meacham
this is somewhat misleading, although the copyright holder may always distribute their works under another license, they cannot retroactivly change the license on previous releases. once something is gpl'ed it always is. the author may also release it under other licenses, but the gpled version

Re: possible readline license problem with ghc and -package util

2002-06-11 Thread The Thought Assassin
On 12 Jun 2002, Alastair Reid wrote: The copyright holder(s) of a piece of software is free to change which license future copies are released under. It makes no difference whether the license is GPL, BSD, Artistic, Microsoft EULA, or whatever. Yes. In other words, the GPL gives no more