Hi there,I'm forwarding your mail to the Debian Haskell Group and to kaol, GHC's maintainer, for input, as I don't know much about this myself.
There was a recent thread about this[0], and Ganesh noted that there are still going to be no ABI guarantees provided, so this will cause us some trouble. We are yet to come up with a way of working around this.
Regards, Iain [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2009/09/threads.html#00077 ----- Forwarded message from Gard Spreemann <gspreemann@gmail.com> -----
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 11:40:36 +0100 From: Gard Spreemann <gspreemann@gmail.com> To: laney@ubuntu.com Subject: GHC 6.12 and shared libraries User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-14-generic; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) Hi. I was just reading about the upcoming GHC 6.12 release and all its goodness when I noticed that this version will support shared libraries (yay!). This would mean a major shift in Ubuntu's packaging of Haskell libraries for Lucid, right? Is there a policy in place, and has this been discussed? If so, where I can read about it? Do you know if the Debian Haskell team has published any policy? I just picked your email address from the GHC Ubuntu changelog, so please forgive me if you're not the right person to ask... :-) -- Gard Spreemann <spreeman@stud.ntnu.no>, <spreeman@pvv.ntnu.no>, <gspreemann@gmail.com> <http://folk.ntnu.no/spreeman>
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