Re: This week

2008-10-08 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 04:25:58PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 07:08:42PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > > > Sat Sep 20 18:52:38 GMT Daylight Time 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > * Tidy up the treatment of dead binders > > > > Furthermore, I removed the most troubling a

Re: This week

2008-09-21 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 07:08:42PM +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: > > Sat Sep 20 18:52:38 GMT Daylight Time 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * Tidy up the treatment of dead binders > > Furthermore, I removed the most troubling aspect altogether, where the "set" > could map one Id to a *different* o

RE: This week

2008-09-20 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Ian, You've probably forgotten this, but I finally got around to a tidy-up I've been meaning to do for some time Sat Sep 20 18:52:38 GMT Daylight Time 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Tidy up the treatment of dead binders | From: Ian Lynagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 10 February 2008 23:05 ..

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: 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: This week

2008-08-28 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Ian Lynagh: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: So I think it should all work, and in any case Ian now has a Mac so we can verify all this. I've just tried it (make framework-pkg), and modulo a couple of fixes for installing with a DESTDIR (which I'll push once I'

Re: This week

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:08:04AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > > So I think it should all work, and in any case Ian now has a Mac so we can > verify all this. I've just tried it (make framework-pkg), and modulo a couple of fixes for installing with a DESTDIR (which I'll push once I've validated

Re: This week

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | > That means that there will be no Mac OS X installer packages for 6.10 | > either (it uses the bindist target as part of the build process). I | | Ooops, sorry, braino: bindist will work (and indeed, already does). | | What we won't fix is building from HC files, i.e

RE: This week

2008-08-28 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| > That means that there will be no Mac OS X installer packages for 6.10 | > either (it uses the bindist target as part of the build process). I | | Ooops, sorry, braino: bindist will work (and indeed, already does). | | What we won't fix is building from HC files, i.e. porting GHC to a new | arc

Re: This week

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:48:03AM +1000, Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Ian Lynagh: > >Given the plan to change the build system, we've decided not to spend > >time fixing bindist for the current build system, and thus not to > >fix it > >for the 6.10 release. > > That means that there will be

Re: This week

2008-08-27 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Ian Lynagh: Given the plan to change the build system, we've decided not to spend time fixing bindist for the current build system, and thus not to fix it for the 6.10 release. That means that there will be no Mac OS X installer packages for 6.10 either (it uses the bindist target as part

This week

2008-08-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
machine took 29 before I upgraded python (to a version that supports parallel testsuite) and ghc6 (from 6.6.1 to 6.8.2). I'm not sure which of these made most of the difference. I've closed a few bugs this week: #2537: Missing LICENSE file (which was causing install to f

This week

2008-08-10 Thread Ian Lynagh
Hi all, As anticipated last week, I spent a lot of this week working on the build system. Mostly this was resurrecting UNIX binary distributions, which now work (although there are doubtless some bits still missing). Unfortunately, we don't normally know whereabouts in the tree we are, e.g.