Judah Jacobson wrote:
- System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs provided
by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of
System.Console.Readline).
I would like to see a restructuring of the old readline
package:
1. a _new_ readline package that only contains the interface
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Christian Maeder wrote:
The extended packages 2 could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
1 remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
I would hope that ghc will link to
Christian Maeder wrote:
The extended packages 2 could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
1 remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
I would hope that ghc will link to editline-ext on all
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Christian Maeder wrote:
The extended packages 2 could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
1 remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
and readline under linux, but has the same interface and package name!
I would hope that ghc will link to
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
for me, GMP is much more problematic issue. strictly speaking, we
can't say that GHC is BSD-licensed because it includes LGPL-licensed
code (and that much worse, it includes this code in run-time libs)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
..binary distributions of GHC that
Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the editline
backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler, it must be possible for
users to
I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
Prelude with Double and Integer.
But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts.
Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a compiler like ghc?
Cheers Christian
Don Stewart wrote:
However, its buried in the rts/distributed with the runtime, so that
users may optionally use that version, rather than finding and
installing their own external gmp package. On almost all platforms
though, the distributed-with-ghc gmp is unused.
But doesn't that mean that
Christian.Maeder:
I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
Prelude with Double and Integer.
But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts.
Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a compiler like ghc?
Integer is a good type :)
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the editline
backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler, it must be
phercek:
Christian Maeder wrote:
I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
Prelude with Double and Integer.
Why is GMP needed for Double? Based on the online report Double is
double precision floating; it does not need to represent arbitrary
big numbers.
I
gale:
Don Stewart wrote:
However, its buried in the rts/distributed with the runtime, so that
users may optionally use that version, rather than finding and
installing their own external gmp package. On almost all platforms
though, the distributed-with-ghc gmp is unused.
But doesn't
Don Stewart wrote:
on any system where an external libgmp is available, it will
be dynamically linked into the generated haskell programs,
and in-tree gmp isn't used at all (or compiled, or installed)
So on linux and *bsd, that should be fine.
On Mac OS X (as a special case of *bsd), we have
Hello Manuel,
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 7:49:00 AM, you wrote:
for me, GMP is much more problematic issue. strictly speaking, we
can't say that GHC is BSD-licensed because it includes LGPL-licensed
code (and that much worse, it includes this code in run-time libs)
use of GMP in the code
Christian Maeder wrote:
ghc will link to libedit if it is available on your platform, but the
Haskell package will still have the name readline and give ghc all the
functionality it needs (without licence problems).
Only the current readline Haskell package needs libreadline and
supplies more
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
for me, GMP is much more problematic issue. strictly speaking, we
can't say that GHC is BSD-licensed because it includes LGPL-licensed
code (and that much worse, it includes this code in run-time libs)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
..binary
On Jan 17, 2008 6:00 AM, Christian Maeder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Christian Maeder wrote:
The extended packages 2 could go under extra libs or hackageDB, while
1 remains a boot package for ghc that can link to editline on macs
and readline under linux, but has
On Jan 17, 2008 2:08 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
I would hope that ghc will link to editline-ext on all platforms.
Unfortunately it seems that editline cannot currently be build on
Windows. I have tried to build the editline source from
http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/ with MinGW/msys. Pdcurses
Isaac Dupree wrote:
It's also possible to just distribute, for
example, the .o file(s) and a way to link them with a GMP to get the
final result; this doesn't even reveal your source-code any more than
your program being dynamically linked, at least if you do it right -- right?
It doesn't
Christian Maeder wrote:
I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
Prelude with Double and Integer.
Why is GMP needed for Double? Based on the online report Double is
double precision floating; it does not need to represent arbitrary
big numbers.
I thought it is there
Hello Isaac,
Thursday, January 17, 2008, 8:05:56 PM, you wrote:
(b) is a sufficient condition, but not necessary; there are other ways
to satisfy the license. It's also possible to just distribute, for
example, the .o file(s) and a way to link them with a GMP to get the
final result; this
Hello,
On Thursday 17 January 2008 05:24, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
Thorkil Naur:
Hello,
On Tuesday 08 January 2008 15:07, Christian Maeder wrote:
Hi,
I've succeeded in building a binary distribution that uses static
libraries for gmp and readline. libreadline.a, libncurses.a
Hi
What is the situation on Windows? Does the standard
GHC binary on Windows have dynamically linked gmp
for binaries produced by ghc?
No, they are statically linked. (Please, can no one start discussing
licensing, people already know there are issues with it, and I get
plenty of traffic
Hello,
On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:57, Christian Maeder wrote:
I understand that gmp is needed for the certain libraries like the
Prelude with Double and Integer.
But I do not understand why gmp is so deeply buried in the rts.
Are the basic types Int and Pointer not enough to write a
Yitzchak Gale:
Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
for me, GMP is much more problematic issue. strictly speaking, we
can't say that GHC is BSD-licensed because it includes LGPL-licensed
code (and that much worse, it includes this code in run-time libs)
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
..binary distributions
Alex Young:
Yitzchak Gale wrote:
Isaac Dupree wrote:
GHC is in no legal trouble whatsoever... only if proprietary Haskell
code uses the readline library and doesn't switch to using the
editline
backend.
Agreed. I didn't mean that GHC itself was ever in any
legal trouble. But as a compiler,
Christian Maeder:
Judah Jacobson wrote:
- System.Console.Editline.Readline contains the readline APIs
provided
by the editline library (mostly a cut/paste of
System.Console.Readline).
I would like to see a restructuring of the old readline
package:
1. a _new_ readline package that only
Yitzchak Gale:
OK for the time
being, but it would be really, really good to be able to compile
ghc without gmp.
Well, just go ahead and write an alternative portable high-
performance implementation of Integer.
This idea of a Mac OS X binary with statically-linked
gmp is nice, it is
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