Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-29 Thread Ross Paterson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:42:39PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: I'm not sure how it was ever supposed to work, that is bootstrapping Cabal directly using runhugs on the Setup.hs script in the Cabal dir. Cabal has always had some cpp in it and (as far as I know) hugs does not have a -cpp flag. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-29 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.ukwrote: The way I've tested it recently is to build the Setup.hs with ghc and use that to install Cabal for hugs. From then on one can use runhugs to run other Setup scripts. That's good to know, thanks.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-29 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 20:49 +, Ross Paterson wrote: If you can get the search path right (ie to not look in the current dir) then I expect it would also be possible to bootstrap using a pre-existing Cabal library for hugs. Unfortunately that won't work: runhugs always adds the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-29 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 29 Jan 2009, at 20:49, Ross Paterson wrote: Hugs uses cpphs, but it has to build a dozen packages (including Cabal) before cpphs is available. Once it is, they're built again. That strikes me as odd. The cpphs implementation deliberately has minimal dependencies - Haskell'98

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-29 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:21:42PM +, Malcolm Wallace wrote: On 29 Jan 2009, at 20:49, Ross Paterson wrote: Hugs uses cpphs, but it has to build a dozen packages (including Cabal) before cpphs is available. Once it is, they're built again. That strikes me as odd. The cpphs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 21:41 -0600, John Goerzen wrote: I have tried to maintain Hugs compatibility in all my libraries, but I must admit I am dropping it for many, due to various problems. It is mainly that libraries I use from others haven't even been tried with Hugs or have weird issues:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.ukwrote: Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. I've been unable to figure out how to build Cabal with Hugs 2006.09.04: $ *runhugs -98 Setup configure --hugs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread wren ng thornton
Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.ukwrote: Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. I've been unable to figure out how to build Cabal with Hugs 2006.09.04: $ *runhugs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread wren ng thornton
wren ng thornton wrote: Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.ukwrote: Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. I've been unable to figure out how to build Cabal with Hugs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 12:35 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.uk wrote: Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. I've been unable to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-28 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:26 -0500, wren ng thornton wrote: wren ng thornton wrote: Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@worc.ox.ac.ukwrote: Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal

[Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto
Hi, I see Hugs last source code snapshot dates back to 2006. Was there any updates? Regards -- Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto Electronic Engineer, MSc. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 12:55 -0200, Rafael Gustavo da Cunha Pereira Pinto wrote: Hi, I see Hugs last source code snapshot dates back to 2006. Was there any updates? Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. It's equivalent in time

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How outdated is Hugs?

2009-01-27 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 09:18:55PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: I see Hugs last source code snapshot dates back to 2006. Was there any updates? Not since then, no. However a lot of things work fine, especially if you use a newer Cabal version. It's equivalent in time to ghc-6.6 I think,