Re: more releases

2015-09-05 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
having a large number of versions of GHC out there can make it difficult for library authors, package curators, and large open source projects, due to variety of what people are using. For point releases, if we do it right, this *should* not happen, since the changes *should* be

Re: The future of the Haskell98 and Haskell2010 packages

2014-11-18 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
RebindableSyntax I thought this would work, but people seemed pretty sure we would need to do more work than RebindableSyntax to get everything in place. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph signature.asc

Re: RFC: Properly stated origin of code contributions

2014-10-30 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
of the project) is not an unreasonable thing to do. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs

Re: Warning on tabs by default (#9230) for GHC 7.10

2014-10-21 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
off that I can put in all of my builds. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http

Re: Is there a way to add a dynamic library to every link with GHC automatically?

2014-10-01 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
- -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJULBgbAAoJENEcKRHOUZzeikQP/ir+JdnO5Hdfe2j13Ut4Plkx cRBK9mbn5bXgojGS/0WZuDLl8A6wn4QlzgeG

Using cabal-install with GHC HEAD?

2014-10-01 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
' to create the database with the correct format. So, do I need an even newer version of cabal-install (HEAD maybe?)? Or does cabal-install just not support GHC HEAD yet at all yet? - -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph

Is there a way to add a dynamic library to every link with GHC automatically?

2014-09-30 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
if that library should be required, but it does fix the problem. So now I'm wondering if there's a way to tell my GHC build that when it is built for this platform it should just always link against libcaps as well as whatever else? - -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I

Re: Overlapping and incoherent instances

2014-08-07 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I suppose that -XOverlappingInstances could mean silently honour OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPPING pragmas, while lacking it would mean honour OVERLAPPABLE/OVERLAPPING pragmas, but emit noisy warnings or even don't honour them and warn. But that is

Re: Overlapping and incoherent instances

2014-07-29 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
and then eventually (likely) be rejected by newer GHCs, thus requiring a prepropcessor in either case. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs

Re: Bit-rotting(?) HUGS-specific code in GHC boot libraries

2013-09-11 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Somebody claiming to be Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: Does anyone actually still use/test those packages in HUGS? I know lots of people still using HUGS. (When) can that code be removed? When enough features become standard that it becomes unnecessary ;) -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma

Re: Segfault when using integer-simple

2013-06-17 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
anyway and the switch was not difficult. Did you have to seperately cross-compile libgmp first, or does android have it by default? -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph

Re: Segfault when using integer-simple

2013-06-16 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
to build a cross-compiler for arm-linux just now and it complained that I don't have curses for terminfo :P If anyone with an Android or other cross-compiler could test it out, that would be awesome too, but I will keep poking. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I

Segfault when using integer-simple

2013-06-15 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
GHC. Can one of the people working on Android and/or Raspberry Pi ports try this code out and let me know if it works for you? I'll try to do a native (non-cross-compile) build of GHC with integer-simple as well, to test this on. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net

CPP macro to determine GHCi presence?

2013-06-14 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
} This is because the source uses a feature that cannot be supported in cross-compilation. The problematic line, however, can easily be removed. It would be very useful to have a CPP macro defined by GHC that can be used to enable/disable these sorts of features. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See

Re: base package (was: GHC 7.8 release?)

2013-02-13 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
-base. It would be great to have a portable base, without any GHC-specific stuff in it. After all, modules like Control.Monad or Data.Foldable are pure Haskell2010. +1 -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph

Re: No instance for (Fractional Int32)

2013-02-08 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
a standalone 'deriving instance' declaration, so you can specify the instance context yourself When deriving the instance for (Fractional CFloat) Has anybody seen this with HEAD? This may be a side effect of the fix for http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7569 -- Stephen Paul

Re: [PATCH] do not use CLK_TCK on Solaris host

2013-01-18 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
/7519 This affects more than just Solaris. -- Stephen Paul Weber, @singpolyma See http://singpolyma.net for how I prefer to be contacted edition right joseph ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs