RE: Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.6.1

2007-04-30 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| Making it possible to use Haskell in mixed language projects with C++ | and Java is obviously a good thing, but it's not really a scalable | solution to distribute them all together. We should look at how to | improve cabal+ghc to make it easier to use them as a component of a | larger system.

Re: Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:38 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Albert, Sunday, April 29, 2007, 2:51:24 AM, you wrote: Is it just me who thinks this is a silly idea? Why should GHC include a C++ compiler? .NET literates, will benefit from the many libraries available in .NET. Can

Re: Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.6.1

2007-04-28 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Is it just me who thinks this is a silly idea? Why should GHC include a alternative way may be inclusion of instructions how to add c++ compiler to ghc installation - it's not trivial because one need to know which gcc version should be used and which files copied Since I know that Bulat

Re: Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.6.1

2007-04-26 Thread shelarcy
Hello Bulat, I think that builders/distributers use make binary-dist to make binary distribution normally. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Using#BootstrappingGHC make binary-dist calls prep-bin-dist-mingw to make Windows friendly distribution now.