On Jun 20, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Yay!
http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~rdocki01/yhc-bytecode.html
I haven't downloaded it yet (I'll get to it in a few days :) ), but it
looks pretty much exactly like what I was aiming for, which is very
nice to see!
There is only one really small and minor thing - we have decided to
use the namespace Yhc instead of YHC, since the compiler is
"officially" called Yhc.
OK. That's easy enough to change. Is the namespace consumption
otherwise acceptable?
It would be nice if we could put this in the main Yhc, if thats ok by
you. I'm not sure if we can give you commit access, but I'll look into
it, and otherwise we can figure out a remote darcs repo and then pull
from it as required. And also it would be nice for the back end of the
compiler to use this as well.
Well, I suppose that depends on what's meant by "in the main Yhc". I
think its most valuable as a standalone library, so I'm not sure its
a good idea to merge it into the Yhc compiler codebase, if that's
what you mean. If you mean "in the Yhc darcs repo" that may still be
problematic if I can't get commit access, because there are still a
number of things I hope to do with this library.
So, I guess I'm not really sure. Perhaps explicitly pulling from a
remote repository is the best thing for now?
The only other issue is that I don't think this library is 100% ready
for production use. I'd really like to write a good test suite
before I feel comfortable with Yhc relying on it. Unfortunately I'm
not sure when I'll have time to do this :-(
The only remaining this is the license, since none of the original nhc
code made it to this side of the compiler, the only people with
copyright on this stuff (or anything related to it) are you, me and
Tom. Me and Tom both think that maybe LGPL would be more appropriate
for this library, on the basis that then people can use the library
from both a GPL program and a BSD program, and it seems that BSD is
the prefered license for Haskell stuff, so it makes us more
compatible.
OK. I'll make the next release LGPL.
Thanks for this great work!
Neil
Rob Dockins
Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank.
Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank.
-- TMBG
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