Hi, > > * Remove Make/ from src. > > There is no Make/ in src, its in the root. And it is an alternative > build system - please do not remove until we've decided on the "one > true" build system.
Sure. I guess then this patch should be part of the set of patches removing SCons, which may or may not be applied at a later date depending on the outcome of the Great Build System Debate. I asked another Yhc developer about Make/ who told me as far as he knew this wasn't being worked on anymore. Is it still being worked on? I note Make/ contains source for a Haskell based make system. Isn't it essential that Yhc have a build system that doesn't have Haskell as a dependency? The Yhc runtime has the big advantage of being a bytecode interpreter, meaning porting to a new architecture is theoretically a case of compiling the C runtime using a C compiler, then running the platform independent Yhc bytecode generated by some other computer. Henceforth you have a working Haskell compiler on an entirely new platform having started only with a C compiler. Someday maybe, this could be an alternative way of boostrapping GHC. Using CMake for building only means that more than a C compiler, you need a C++ compiler, but you don't need a Haskell compiler (at least to build the runtime). > > * Cleanup the misc/ directory. > > Everything in this directory either had a purpose, or still does - > leave it alone. The files removed by this patch are Batch.hs and Makefile.bpp, which seems to be yet another method for building under Windows and written in a Visual Basic like language. If the other build systems subsume this (or once they do), shouldn't these files be removed? > > * Remove the src/compiler98 folder, which is now unused. > > Kill, kill, kill! > > > * Remove msvc files in BCKernel directory. > > No, these are visual studio support, and are used by the Windows build. Does this mean they are used by the scons based windows build? > > * Remove toplevel test/ dir. It looks unused. > > Does it not have any files in it? Mine seems to have one, but that may > be out of the main repo. The test directory was intended to die, as > I've been gradually moving tests into the "tests" dir. Certainly > anything left in test/ should be moved into tests/ then test/ should > die. It just has Split.hs, which this patch removes, along with the test/ dir. Regards, Mathieu _______________________________________________ Yhc mailing list Yhc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/yhc
