On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 08:00:42AM +0200, Dawe wrote:
> To lower the impact of ghc we could remove all hs-ports that don't need 
> patching
> and work out of the box with cabal.

The biggest current problem is that there'll be a flag day when we
switch to 64 bit time_t. After this day, neiter an installed ghc
nor the ghc bootstrapping binaries will work any longer.

I've prepared a bootstrapping sequence starting with ghc-6.6
(bootstrapping from .hc files), going through several ghc versions
up to 7.4, but this still not working.

After all the years dealing with all this ghc bullshit (broken
bootstrapping, non-deterministic symbol names, incompatible changes
with every release) I'm seriously loosing interest.

Ciao,
        Kili

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