Re: Release/git plans

2011-01-22 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 21 January 2011 23:59, austin seipp a...@hacks.yi.org wrote: Perhaps Max can elaborate on why this design was rejected in favor of the current one, so we can see how and where it falls down, and what we really want. The only reason really is that it added a lot of mechanism. From the top of

Re: Release/git plans

2011-01-22 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Austin, The compiler plugins work is a great, and I'd be a likely user. The original version wasn't supported on Windows, because GHC on Windows lacked various forms of dynamic linking. Does the current patch you've prepared work on Windows? Thanks, Neil On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Max

RFC: Compiler plugins for GHC (was: Release/git plans)

2011-01-22 Thread austin seipp
(moved into g-h-u mainline to avoid cluttering discussion around new GHC plans. Anybody who has comments on the plugins work is encouraged to reply here, not there.) Neil, Preemptive TL;DR: I don't quite know, but I'd be willing to work on it. I seem to remember at the time Max originally did