Alex Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> Since ghc-4.04 confuguration insists one has Happy v1.6, has this
> actually been released? I see no link to it from the usually suspect
> sites.
AFAIK it is still in pre-release mode (and everybody -
except me *sniff* - is in Paris this week attending ICFP and
the Haskell workshop). If you are using Linux, you can get
the binary and source rpms of the 1.6 pre-release from my
ftp server
ftp://greyarea.is.tsukuba.ac.jp/pub/jibunmaki/
> If it's Imminent, can a make the modest suggestion that it have a
> standalone makefile in it? Having to slot it into a ghc source
> build tree has always struck me as both inconvemient, and overkill.
It already builds on its own. All Glaswegian FP software
uses the the same `fptools' environment of makefiles and
such, but you can slot each component (being it GHC or
Happy) on its own into the `fptools' harness and build it
(the source tar files usually contain `fptools' plus one
component, and thus, are self-sufficient).
If you don't use Linux or just want to build it on your own
for fun, getting the stuff out of CVS is really easy;
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/cvs-cheat-sheet.html#first
describes how. If you don't have CVS, I can provide you
with a tar file _and_ you should definitely have a serious
word with your systems administrator.
Manuel
