RE: [ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC

Ben,

Wouldn't

git clone git://github.com/snowleopard/shaking-up-ghc shake-build cabal install shake-build/

be sufficient?

As I understand, this will not take care of alex and happy? Although if we list them as dependencies in shaking-up-ghc.cabal, that will indeed be sufficient... I think it's a good idea :) Cheers, Andrey

-----Original Message----- From: Ben Gamari [mailto:ben@smart-cactus.org] Sent: 23 January 2016 21:22 To: Andrey Mokhov; Herbert Valerio Riedel; Tuncer Ayaz Cc: GHC developers Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC

Andrey Mokhov writes:

...

Herbert,

...

I think it's already quite convenient. After all, you're expected to have a minimum GHC bootstrapping environment anyway. So having the tools installed (as already do now, e.g. you need alex, happy, and ghc to be able to work on GHC).

I agree. Roughly, we are talking about going from:

cabal install alex happy

to:

cabal install alex happy ansi-terminal mtl shake QuickCheck

Wouldn't

git clone git://github.com/snowleopard/shaking-up-ghc shake-build cabal install shake-build/

be sufficient?

Cheers,

- Ben