Re: Haskell in Debian

[Rui Zhu]

On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know 
> > there
> > was a free version around.
> 
> 
> In related note, according to unofficial information from Simon Peyton
> Jones (the primary author of GHC), the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) will
> become free RSN.  Currently GHC has no license.  I've tried to bootstrap
> it but it is so big a beast that I'll probably let it pass.  I hope
> someone else packages it when it becomes free. 

It is good news though it is only unofficial one.  I've tried to build
4.02, it took me 4 hours on my K6-233 box and costed more than 100MB
disk.  I'd like to apply to become a Debian maintainer and package it,
if no one want to take it.

Regards,
Zhu Rui

Intend to package: GHC (glasgow haskell compiler).

[Rui Zhu]

Hello, all,

I'm happy to express my wish to package GHC.  I'm just doing it now
and will soon send my application to become a Debian maintainer.

I've contact GHC developer for licence issue again and now got answers
from them (see below).  Exact one will be later posted in haskell
mailing list.  OK, hold our breath.

Cheers,
Rui

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Rui

We are hoping to offer a BSD-style license (minus the advertising clause)
shortly, but I need the agreement of the University of Glasgow
to do this. I hope to have that agreement soon, but I can't predict
exactly when.

I'll broadcast to the Haskell mailing list when this gets sorted
out.

Simon





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Re: Haskell in Debian

[Rui Zhu]

Giuliano P Procida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> b) ghc runs out of heap compiling its parser
> 
>  The file ParseIface.hs (in ghc/compiler) needs more than 64M but no more
>  than 128M of heap to compile. With 64M of RAM and not too much else
>  (X and ntpd) running you are looking at 1500+ garbage collections for
>  about 1.5G of allocation. This file took 10-20 minutes on my machine.

Just FYI, accidently I found at the GHC site that this file can cause
trouble, there is memory leak.  (see
)

Regards,
Rui

Re: correct apt deb line for non-us?

[Rui Zhu]

Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is it currently possible to access the unstable non-US section with
> apt-get? Or is the reorganisation not finished? Currently neither of
> the following lines work:
> 
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian unstable non-US
> 
> deb ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/debian unstable non-US

Hi, Matthias,

I've only one line in my sources.list for unstable, it works at least
yesterday (Friday).

deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-US

Ciao,
Rui