[nightly] 29-Aug-2008 build of HEAD on i386-unknown-linux (cam-02-unx.europe.corp.microsoft.com)

2008-08-29 Thread GHC Build Reports
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[issue1034] pull => errors in pending (2.0.2+76)

2008-08-29 Thread Thorkil Naur
Thorkil Naur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: http://bugs.darcs.net/msg5757: > I need a volunteer to do the following: > ... I will try to do something about this. Best regards Thorkil -- assignedto: -> thorkilnaur nosy: +thorkilnaur status: need-volunteer -> in-progress _

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 8/29/08, Neil Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Could you please upload a new document, and point at the new one? I > think the "standard" reference for GHC Core is a link to that paper, > and it would be nice for the references in papers to stay valid. For > example The Monad Reader Is

Re: haddock

2008-08-29 Thread David Waern
2008/8/29 Ian Lynagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi all, > > I have a GHC tree that builds and uses haddock 6.10 during the build > process, and validates. > > David, as I understand it you want to avoid having a separate haddock > repo for GHC, right? Yes, but I don't like the thought of having to v

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:14:32AM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > This doc should really ship with GHC, just as the manual and Haddock does do, > and be pointed to from the manual by a relative path. Rather than pointing > to a single stale version. > > Ian, how hard would that be? Cur

Re: darcs patch: Fix linkage on OpenBSD.

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:09:44AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thu Aug 28 17:03:31 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Fix linkage on OpenBSD. Thanks! I'll push it when I next push. Ian ___ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.hask

Re: haddock

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:48:55PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > This puts haddock in a similar boat to Cabal, in that if you make > changes to it then you need to remember to push them specially. Oh, I guess the other consideration is that the way everything works will be changing in a couple of

Re: The GHC library and hierarchical module names

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:49:43AM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Thomas Schilling: > >I tried to plot GHC's dependency graph but it just became a grey/black > >cloud. A hierarchical module space could clean things up a bit. > > Compilers are (in)famous for that property. Using a hierarc

Re: haddock

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:58:44PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > > This does mean that any patches to the main haddock repo need to pass > > validate. > > I contribute patches to Haddock, but have no way to run validate (I > don't have my own computer currently, and can't install mingw/cygwin >

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Neil Mitchell
> OK so regardless of doing the "ship ExtCore ps doc with GHC" issue, we should > in-place > update the doc at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz I was actually suggesting that the documentation should _not_ be updated in place, which I think is what Tim was initially proposing. I

RE: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
OK so regardless of doing the "ship ExtCore ps doc with GHC" issue, we should in-place update the doc at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz I don't know how do to that... does anyone else? S | -Original Message- | From: Neil Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 29

Re: haddock

2008-08-29 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi > This does mean that any patches to the main haddock repo need to pass > validate. I contribute patches to Haddock, but have no way to run validate (I don't have my own computer currently, and can't install mingw/cygwin on any of the machines I have access to). What should I do? I doubt the p

Re: This week

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Marlow
Ian Lynagh wrote: I installed it and ghci is able to do arithmetic, at least. Heh, that's my usual test for a working installer too :) You'd be surprised how many things need to be working to get GHCi to print the value of 2+2. Cheers, Simon ___

Re: GHC API Refactorings - To Merge or not to Merge?

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Marlow
Ian Lynagh wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:35:38AM +0200, Thomas Schilling wrote: (1) Ok, thinking about it, it would probably Ok to merge it in after the 6.10 branch, but then backporting changes to 6.10 would become very difficult. Maintaining it as a long-running branch would be invo

haddock

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, I have a GHC tree that builds and uses haddock 6.10 during the build process, and validates. David, as I understand it you want to avoid having a separate haddock repo for GHC, right? So currently what I've done is to make darcs-all support absolute URLs in the packages file, e.g.:

Re: GHC API Refactorings - To Merge or not to Merge?

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:35:38AM +0200, Thomas Schilling wrote: > > (1) Ok, thinking about it, it would probably Ok to merge it in > after the 6.10 branch, but then backporting changes to 6.10 would > become very difficult. Maintaining it as a long-running branch would > be involving, th

Re: Docs for language flags

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:59:53AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Nevertheless we should move towards specifying everything about a flag in > one place. I think Ian had some thoughts along those lines? Right, we have a ticket for that: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1880 Some of

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Tim, > Yes, but first I was hoping that the contents of the link at: > http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz > (which the manual points to) could be updated. I don't have access to > do that myself, as far as I know. Could you please upload a new document, and point at the new one?

Re: This week

2008-08-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:13:29AM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Ian Lynagh: > > >By the way, Manuel, is it supposed to remove the older version of > >GHC I > >had installed? > > You can have one version per branch. Hmm, If I start off with your 6.8.3 installed: $ ls -l /Library/

Re: GHC API Refactorings - To Merge or not to Merge?

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 29 Aug 2008, at 10:37, Claus Reinke wrote: This darcs2 style of announcements seems to be infective. Your message sounds as if you'd like someone to tell you that no, you shouldn't really merge?-) 1. Going directly from not-even-in-head to in-release-candidate sounds scary, especially

RE: The GHC library and hierarchical module names

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
the settling down I was thinking of is that I'm sure the exercise will promote a good deal of refactoring, moving code around etc. Does this module belong here or there? Does this function belong here or there? This takes brain cycles, and there are only 20 days until release candidate S |

Re: The GHC library and hierarchical module names

2008-08-29 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not against this, but I urge that we postpone it until after 6.10. > There'll be quite a bit of settling down to do, I predict. Actually, since the module namespace is one of the few extensions that is purely lexical, I think it is easy to guar

Re: GHC API Refactorings - To Merge or not to Merge?

2008-08-29 Thread Claus Reinke
This darcs2 style of announcements seems to be infective. Your message sounds as if you'd like someone to tell you that no, you shouldn't really merge?-) 1. Going directly from not-even-in-head to in-release-candidate sounds scary, especially if it is going to be the only alternative, wit

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 8/29/08, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It think you do! It's just part of the GHC darcs repo, at > docs/ext-core > It even has your name in it, last modified 5 May 08. > > Or maybe I'm missing the point. Perhaps it's fully up to date (thank you), > and what you are

RE: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| On 8/29/08, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Excellent plan. Could you send us a patch? Or commit one yourself? | > | | Yes, but first I was hoping that the contents of the link at: | http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz | (which the manual points to) could be upda

Re: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 8/29/08, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excellent plan. Could you send us a patch? Or commit one yourself? > Yes, but first I was hoping that the contents of the link at: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz (which the manual points to) could be updated. I don't

RE: Updating External Core docs for 6.10

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Excellent plan. Could you send us a patch? Or commit one yourself? Thanks Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Chevalier | Sent: 28 August 2008 22:31 | To: Cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Updating External Core docs for 6.10 | |

RE: The GHC library and hierarchical module names

2008-08-29 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > The arguments for moving to hierarchical module names were: | > | > * it makes finding modules much easier for people new to the code | > (although tools can help here). For example, Neil Mitchell said: | > Yhc moved to heirarchical module names, and it was a fantastic | >decision |

Daily report for head

2008-08-29 Thread BuildBot Collator
Build results: x86-64 Linux head:fail (failed stage1) x86 Windows head: fail (failed darcs) x86 Windows head fast:pass pass fail (failed stage2) fail (failed darcs) fail (failed darcs) pass fast486 head: lost gabor head: pass kgarda

Daily report for stable

2008-08-29 Thread BuildBot Collator
Build results: tnaur PPC OSX stable 2: pass x86 Windows stable: fail (failed stage1) x86 Windows stable fast: pass pass pass pass pass pass pass x86-64 Linux stable: fail (failed stage1) Old unexpected test failures: TyFamUndec 6 gabor stable barton-mangler-bug 1 tna