Re: Update Cabal submodule to HEAD (1.21)

2014-07-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 20.07.2014, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: Since this patch causes GHC HEAD to not bootstrap out of the box from GHC 7.6, I've reverted it for now. We'll have to cross this bridge sometime though. thanks. Cabal already has applied the patch to make the initial

GHC 7.10.1 tickets

2014-07-21 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello *, We need to be sorting out tickets for 7.10.1. Last week, I spent some time remilestoning things to get them into the rough correct places (roughly), but we all need some help to get an idea of what we should fix for the release. Here's a query to look at:

Status updates

2014-07-21 Thread Austin Seipp
Hello *, Here are some updates from this past week. - I sent an email earlier about 7.10.1 tickets - please vote on them! - Related to that - as I said last week, I finished remilestoning a lot of tickets, but more remain. Please excuse any mail spam, but do pay attention to your bugs if they

Re: Building GHC under Wine?

2014-07-21 Thread Simon Marlow
On 18/07/2014 08:59, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Freitag, den 18.07.2014, 08:38 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: I might be misremembering, but I believe someone (Ross Paterson?) used to do this a while ago. I can't think of any good reasons it *shouldn't* work. Then, next question: Is it

Multi-instance packages status report

2014-07-21 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Hello all, As you may have noticed, I've been knocking around GHC and Cabal the past few weeks. One of the tasks that has been on my list is essentially reimplementing Philipp Schuster's 2012 GSoC, with a few small but important architectural differences. Here is a status report of what is

Re: Beta Performance dashboard

2014-07-21 Thread Simon Marlow
This is great! Can it do alerts, e.g. send a mail to the list when a metric moves by a certain amount? Cheers, Simon On 16/07/2014 09:02, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, I guess it’s time to talk about this, especially as Richard just brought it up again... I felt that we were seriously

Re: Windows breakage -- again

2014-07-21 Thread Johan Tibell
Great. Thanks all for your help! On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: Thanks Niklas, this is now committed. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.com wrote: I posted a working and tested patch last night. Please feel free to

Re: Thread status constants

2014-07-21 Thread Simon Marlow
On 19/07/2014 06:00, Kyle Van Berendonck wrote: I found these: https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/5f3c5384df59717ca8013c5df8d1f65692867825/includes/rts/Constants.h#L194 They go only 0-14, so there's some long chains of branches and stuff in hot paths that could be cleaned up into single -masked

Re: Multi-instance packages status report

2014-07-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 21.07.2014, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: In my copy of GHC and Cabal [1,2], you can now install multiple copies of a package with differing dependencies to the package database, i.e. q-1.0 compiled against p-1.0, and against p-2.0. The packages in the database are

Re: Beta Performance dashboard

2014-07-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 21.07.2014, 20:30 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: This is great! Can it do alerts, e.g. send a mail to the list when a metric moves by a certain amount? no (or not yet). Large deviations are listed in the summary on http://ghcspeed-nomeata.rhcloud.com/, and I try to keep an

Re: Thread status constants

2014-07-21 Thread Kyle Van Berendonck
Hi Simon, I have been inspecting what gcc generates and found that in all the functions I checked which used the thread status in a switch, none of them generated jump tables, rather, long chains of cmp's. I predict this is because there are overlapping cases (or even a fall-through in one I

Re: GHC contribution guidelines and infrastructure talk on 6th September at HIW?

2014-07-21 Thread Rob Stewart
On 18 July 2014 09:01, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: Am Freitag, den 18.07.2014, 07:25 + schrieb Simon Peyton Jones: | On Saturday 6th September is the Haskell Implementers Workshop. There | has been plenty of discussion over the last 12 months about making |

Re: GHC contribution guidelines and infrastructure talk on 6th September at HIW?

2014-07-21 Thread Mark Lentczner
On a related front... I don't have a talk to give (hence I didn't submit a proposal)... But I'd love it if some of us could have a group discussion about coordinating releases, and our approach to putting out Haskell: In short, we see it as several related peices (GHC, Cabal, Haddock, core libs,

Re: Windows breakage -- again

2014-07-21 Thread Páli Gábor János
2014-07-21 21:31 GMT+02:00 Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com: Great. Thanks all for your help! I am afraid we are not done with this yet. Yesterday I have also committed the fix for the FreeBSD platform, but today I noticed that the corresponding test case (AtomicPrimops) is failing due to