Excerpts from Jean-Philippe Bernardy's message of Tue Sep 30 23:32:29 +0200 
2008:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Nicolas Pouillard
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Jean-Philippe Bernardy's message of Tue Sep 30 21:29:14 +0200 
> > 2008:
> >>
> >> From here the "reload" function /should/ be working.
> >>
> >> Caveats:
> >>   * does not work on OSX (but you can restart manually by passing --resume)
> >
[...]

By dynamic state you mean Data.Dynamic right? If so it's perhaps time to
reduce a little our usage of these dynamics.

> >>   * I'm not sure I like the way binary instances are implemented via
> >> "derive" tool.
> >
> > Why not?
> 
> Derive is very fragile in as a standalone tool (I had to tune imports
> and a few other things),
> so re-deriving is a bit of an arcane process, and is therefore not
> integrated with the build.
> the template-haskell backend is out of the question (for the moment)
> because it requires to
> use the same version of bytestring as GHC. This might be ok when the
> Haskell Platform is
> done.

I agree that a TH backend would better integrate, however people have to
concentrate on a tool for deriving custom things not dozen. BTW have
you tried DrIFT ?

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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