On 15/07/2009 23:38, João Paulo Pizani Flor wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> I'm a great fan and user of Haskell since around one year ago, and have
> been using it for several personal and college tasks. I also use Linux a
> lot, and have been using several distros since around 2000.
>
> I am pretty interested in doing this VM image with a development
> environment, but I have a simple question about what's this all about:
> Are we setting up an environment for GENERAL developmente using Haskell,
> or rather is this VM image targeted at the SPECIFIC development of the
> Glasgow Haskell Compiler?
>
> In the first case, I already started some experimentation with Tiny Core
> Linux (around 10MB) and I'm now waiting to put the upcoming versions of
> GHC and The Platform on it :)
Either (or both!) would be useful.
I originally suggested this as a way to help people get involved with
developing GHC itself. They'd be able to
- install VirtualBox
- download the image, start it up
- immediately have a GHC build ready to make changes and say "make"
- update the sources with "./darcs-all pull"
- validate
- submit patches with "darcs send"
this would be a great way to make a small change to GHC and submit it,
or experiment with GHC, or just to play around with a GHC build without
the hassle of downloading all the repositories and the necessary tools.
Windows users could get a nicer GHC development environment and faster
builds :) Someone who intends to do a signficant amount of work on GHC
would probably want to use a native setup, and spend some time
customising their environment. However, for the casual hacker, I think
a VM would really help.
A VM with just the Platform, and perhaps a selection of other packages
(eg. gtk2hs and glade) would be great too. We could use this as the
basis for a GHC development VM.
Cheers,
Simon
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