8 Jun
2013
8 Jun
'13
7 a.m.
On 5 Jun 2013, at 16:47, Austin Seipp wrote:
testsuite and base are also useful for other compilers, such as nhc98 (and indeed, nhc uses base itself.)
Useful, perhaps, but not actually used in practice. Since the base library repo moved from darcs to git, I think that ghc is the only compiler that uses it. (Maybe the jhc, uhc, or Helium people could refute that though.) For a long, long time, the close coupling between ghc and the base library has been obvious. I have long since given up trying to pretend that base is portable - it is not. It is ghc-specific. I don't think it should be. That is a crazy architecture. But it is the way it is. Maybe it is time for everyone else to stop pretending too. Regards, Malcolm