Re: Plan of Attack for Parallel Builds

2011-03-30 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi Frank, Thanks for reaching out and gathering input. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Frank Murphy anirishd...@gmail.com wrote: - Parallelize executeInstallPlan. When given a target load average as a flag it  will determine whether it should spawn a worker (if below the target load  

Re: Plan of Attack for Parallel Builds

2011-03-30 Thread Simon Meier
Hi all, I'm very much looking forward to a future where cabal install exercises all my core's with some heavy duty Haskell work ;-) Thanks Frank for taking this up. I personally like progress reports on the individual builds very much. I agree that they are not super important, but nevertheless

Re: Plan of Attack for Parallel Builds

2011-03-30 Thread Max Bolingbroke
On 30 March 2011 09:37, Simon Meier iridc...@gmail.com wrote: Probably some more filtering of this sequence is required to cater for repeated calls to GHC. I guess that, as long as progress never goes from 100% to something below, the user will be happy about the progress estimate. Moreover,

[Hackage] #827: Allow Cabal to be build on GHC-6.8 (patch included)

2011-03-30 Thread Hackage
#827: Allow Cabal to be build on GHC-6.8 (patch included) --+- Reporter: basvandijk |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [Hackage] #827: Allow Cabal to be build on GHC-6.8 (patch included)

2011-03-30 Thread Hackage
#827: Allow Cabal to be build on GHC-6.8 (patch included) --+- Reporter: basvandijk |Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal |