Re: New Windows I/O manager in GHC 8.12

Hi Tamar, Congratulations on getting WinIO merged, this is a really impressive effort. ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs

Re: Cabal woes

Hi, On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 23:56, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote: > > That’s a tremendously helpful summary, thank you Iavor. And Michail’s > summary was also very helpful. > > > > Most of this is doubtless well-known to habitual cabal users, but it might be > useful to explain the

Re: Cabal woes

Hi Brandon, On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 23:46, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > Mikhail, the use case not addressed here is people who are used to v1-style > and want to keep using it — and possibly aren't in a great position to rewire > their setup to fit how v2 thinks. Personally, I have situations

Re: Cabal woes

Hello Simon, On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 at 23:14, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote: > > It is terribly mysterious that “cabal install hspec” doesn’t, well, install > hspec. In the cabal v2-* model [1] installing libraries globally is no longer the recommended mode of operation, which is why you

Re: Proposal: Don't read environment files by default

Hi *, On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 12:09, Matthew Pickering wrote: > > [...] > > Therefore, it seems the correct course of action is to stop cabal > generating the environment files by default. If user's still want to > use them then they are easy to enable globally via a configuration > setting. > >

Re: GHC's Fall 2018 HCAR submission

Hello Simon, On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 10:14, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote: > > Ben > > What's the deadline for this? Nov 4, according to Mihai Maruseac's original e-mail [1]. Though this month's edition hasn't been published yet. [1]

Re: [GHC DevOps Group] Fwd: Release policies

Hi Mathieu, On 15 December 2017 at 08:41, Boespflug, Mathieu wrote: > In principle, every single > Hackage package out there, which all have a Setup.hs script. Also, the build-type: Simple packages (which are the vast majority on Hackage) are not affected at all, because they all

Re: [GHC DevOps Group] Fwd: Release policies

Hi Mathieu, On 15 December 2017 at 08:41, Boespflug, Mathieu wrote: > How many other > users of Cabal-the-library are there? In principle, every single > Hackage package out there, which all have a Setup.hs script. This is not such a big deal now, because build-type: Custom

Re: Is Safe Haskell intended to allow segfaults?

Hi, On 9 August 2016 at 01:32, David Terei wrote: > I imagine in Java, that I can construct an invalid pointer in foreign > code, and then cause segfaults without the Java code having any > issues. Just guessing at this, so very interested to know how it's > prevented if I

Re: Cabal status for GHC 8.0.1

Hi, On 12 January 2016 at 17:50, Ben Gamari wrote: > Within what timeframe in particular do you think we'll > be able to have a release tagged and (and ideally released)? Is late > January possible? Yes, I think it should be possible. In fact, all Cabal library changes

Re: OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPPING/OVERLAPS pragmas are confusing

Hi, On 25 August 2015 at 14:18, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: The proposed change to my library is here: https://github.com/tibbe/cassava/pull/95/files We remove the OverlappingInstances pragma and instead add an OVERLAPPABLE pragma like so: instance {-# OVERLAPPABLE #-}

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.10.2

Hi, On 29 July 2015 at 17:26, Ben Gamari b...@well-typed.com wrote: [...] The full release notes including a complete listing of the changes in this release can be found here, https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.2/docs/html/users_guide/release-7-10-2.html This gives me error 404.

Re: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package

On 7 May 2015 at 22:34, Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Dear Cabal developers I guess everyone is busy, but I feel a bit stuck on knowing how to make progress on this thread. Vishal Agrawal's GSoC proposal has been accepted. I guess we'll have to wait and see what comes out of

Re: RFC: Native -XCPP Proposal

On 6 May 2015 at 14:25, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: 2) The lexing rules for C and Haskell simply are not the same in general. One area where this is irritating is that it makes it impossible to use Haskell multiline strings together with CPP.

Re: FYI: Cabal-1.22.1.0 has been released

On 22 February 2015 at 19:51, Ömer Sinan Ağacan omeraga...@gmail.com wrote: Where can we see the changelog? https://github.com/haskell/cabal/blob/master/Cabal/changelog - this file has not been updated. It's a bugfix release. Check out

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.10.1 Release Candidate 1 - problem with latest cabal-install

Hi, On 1 January 2015 at 19:00, George Colpitts george.colpi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, there seems to be dependency issues: Try also adding '--allow-newer=bytestring,deepseq'. ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

Hi, On 4 December 2014 at 17:50, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: in this case, can we get a fixed Cabal in 7.8.4? This is up to whoever manages the release at GHC HQ, which I guess means Austin. ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

Hi, On 4 December 2014 at 09:45, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: is the bug in Cabal or cabal-install? It's in Cabal. So once the new point releases are out, the users will need to run `cabal install cabal-install --constraint=Cabal 1.20.0.2`.

Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

Hi, On 2 December 2014 at 22:06, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: Hi folks, It seems that something somewhere in linker-land changed in GHC 7.8 such that packages that include C components now need to be built with position-independent code on some platforms. I've now fixed this

Re: cabal sdist trouble with GHC from head

Hi, On 30 October 2014 21:30, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-30 17:20 GMT+01:00 Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com: [...] So this just means that Cabal isn't necessarily *future compatible* with future GHCs - they may change the package format, etc. But it is backwards

Re: One-shot semantics in GHC event manager

Hi, On 17 October 2014 16:27, Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: The catch with such a change is that there is no macro to determine whether we're using 7.8.3 or 7.8.4, so it's harder for users to figure things out (they have to use `MIN_VERSION_base` from Cabal). But maybe that

Re: tar --help is failing on Solaris.

Hi Karel, On 27 September 2014 20:19, Karel Gardas karel.gar...@centrum.cz wrote: [...] Could you be so kind and revert this patch or fix it to also work on Solaris? For Solaris the change should be easy, simply if you invoke Solaris' tar with --help, it'll fail with exit code 1 and help

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

Hi, On 13 August 2014 16:12, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still aiming for another major release before 7.10? When's 7.10 scheduled before? End of the year, I think. ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

Hi, On 13 August 2014 16:22, Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com wrote: End of the year, I think. Correction: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-7.10.1 says February 2015. ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http

Re: Release building for Windows

Hi, On 4 August 2014 14:52, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have an URL for this FAQ? I can't find it, and I can't remember what's wrong with --enable-split-objs. :-( What is the impact for people using large libraries (like OpenGL/OpenGLRaw/...) where you often use only a small

Re: Removing GHC's dependency on Cabal

Hi, On 24 July 2014 16:07, Joachim Breitner m...@joachim-breitner.de wrote: So while Duncan’s Proposal has no such dependency, in Simon’s proposal there is one. Will ghc-db’s interface be stable enough that the Cabal developers will be happy to build against a very old version of it? Cabal's

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.8.1 Release Candidate 2

Hello, On 4 March 2014 09:17, José Pedro Magalhães j...@cs.uu.nl wrote: Hello, This GHC crashes whenever I try installing any package. (I guess this might be due to cabal-install, though.) No, looks like a GHC issue. ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: Runtime error using LLVM bitcode execution

Hello Simon, On 3 March 2014 09:39, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the problem is that we can't represent the output of the mangler in LLVM's intermediate language as it stands. Although I think it may now be possible to do this with LLVM 3.4:

Re: [PATCH] platformFromTriple: fix to recognize Solaris triple (i386-pc-solaris2.11)

Hi, On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel hvrie...@gmail.com wrote: You'll need to persuade the Cabal devs to make the fix above available in a stable branch; if the fix makes it into a Cabal release in time for the final GHC 7.8 release, it will most likely be part of 7.8.

Re: 7.8 Release Update

Hi, On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: I think Kazu is saying that when he builds something with profiling using cabal-install, it fails because cabal-install tries to build a dynamic version too. We don't want dyanmic/profiled libraries (there's no

Re: 7.8 Release Update

Hi, On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Hello Mikhail, It is a known issue that Template Haskell does not work with profiling (because GHCi and profiling do not work together, and TH uses GHCi's linker). [1] Actually, with the new linker patches that are