Re: ghc6-6.12.1 is out
I was waiting for Kaol to respond to this first, but he's been quiet
so I'll jump in.
Joachim Breitner wrote:
> as can be seen on http://haskell.org/ghc/index.html, ghc6-6.12 is out,
> so we should think about how we want to tackle that upgrade. Some open
> questions are:
>
> * Upload ghc6 to experimental first and test a few things, or get it
> going in unstable directly?
I like to see it go into experiemental first so we don't break unstable
for any more time than is absolutely necessary.
If its in experimental I pledge to install it in a chroot and test build
all my packages and give it a thorough testing.
> * What general changes do we want to implement now that everything gets
> recompiled anyways. Some ideas:
> a) Hash-based-dependencies (or, in ghc-speech,
> package-id-based-dependencies). See
> http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.1/html/users_guide/packages.html#package-ids
> for more information.
I think this is a really good idea and I think it will save us a lot
time in the long run.
+1
> b) Get rid of -prof packages and merge them into the -dev package.
> (Idea by kaol, came up in the thread “GHC 6.12 and shared
> libraries”, no conclusion, but I’m supportive of it.)
+1
> c) -doc package dependencies. Predominant opinion was to have them as
> hard dependencies, I think, but this needs to be implemented in
> haskell-devscripts.
+1
> d) -dev-packages without maintainer scripts. If packages get
> registered via a trigger in the ghc6 package, or if they drop their
> package information in a directory where ghc-pkg automatically
> merges them from (Kaol discovered code about that once), life would
> be a lot simpler, I’d say.
+1
> So, what do you think should go in, what can wait, and what am I
> missing? This question goes especially to kaol, who probably already has
> plans of his own :-)
Its more a matter of how much time and effort people are willing to put
in. The summer break is comming up here in the southern hemisphere and I
have two weeks off, plus a little more free time than usual. I'm willing
to help where I can.
Cheers,
Erik
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