20 Oct
2014
20 Oct
'14
2:22 p.m.
Excerpts from Eric Seidel's message of 2014-10-20 09:32:41 -0700:
I read recently that Rust has some sort of symbol-mangling in place to allow multiple versions of the same library to co-exist within a single build.
How feasible would it be to add this feature to GHC? At a first glance it seems like it would help substantially.
GHC already has this feature (and in 7.10, it will be upgraded to allow multiple instances of the same version of a library, but with different dependencies). The problem here is that Cabal doesn't understand how to put dependencies together like this. Edward