Re: Plugins, dynamic loading and GHCi

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Vainsencher
So first, IIUC, the dependency on GHCi is incidental, but the dependency on dynamic loading and the linker (which is currently part of GHCi) isn't. Plugins without bootstrapping may be possible, but seem a likely fiddly business. I know currently plu

RE: Plugins, dynamic loading and GHCi

2012-12-18 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
would work. Sorry Simon | -Original Message- | From: cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:cvs-ghc-boun...@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Austin Seipp | Sent: 17 December 2012 23:26 | To: Daniel Vainsencher | Cc: Cvs-ghc@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Plugins, dynamic loading and GHCi | | We discuss

Re: Plugins, dynamic loading and GHCi

2012-12-17 Thread Austin Seipp
Minor nitpick: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Austin Seipp wrote: > I don't know how relevant dynamic-by-default here is, but I see how > it's going to get you around the first issue, which is the major one. s/but I see/but I can't see/ -- Regards, Austin ___

Re: Plugins, dynamic loading and GHCi

2012-12-17 Thread Austin Seipp
We discussed this on IRC the other day but since I have a copy of GHC open I dug through it to refresh my memory. I don't think it would be currently possible with the way things currently are. Someone is free to correct me. To explain the reasoning, I'll parrot that paragraph and specialize it to