| Finally, I'd like to point out that the recent changes to the build | system have caused and continue to cause a lot of problems for us. I | understand that refactoring the build system is a worthwhile task | but it would be really great if it was less disruptive.
Yes, agreed. As you know we've discussed this quite a bit in recent weeks. It's not just the build system (though that is the most prominent recent example). Furthermore, there is a quadratic law going on: doubling the number of active GHC developers doubles the chances that someone will commit a change that breaks other people's builds, *and* double the number of people who are thereby disrupted. The current plan is to have a "last good build" snapshot Darcs repo. If you pull from that, you'll know that Buildbot managed to build from start to finish without problems. | Also, the lack of support for parallel make is | really unfortunate as it significantly increases turn-around times in | some cases (and is confusing to novice users, I guess). Ian, would you like to take a look at this? In these multicore days it seems like a Good Plan. Simon _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
