Let's do it! Austin, would you like to commit this? Reason: simplifies build system, in exchange for dropping a feature that no one uses. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Edward Z. Yang [mailto:ezyang@mit.edu] | Sent: 02 January 2015 21:58 | To: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: Compiling nofib-analyse | | Attached is a patch which axes HTML support in nofib-analyse. | I would Phab it but I don't know how to do that for submodules. | | Maybe we should drop the LaTeX support too! | | Edward | | Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2014-12-30 19:10:56 -0500: | > Pretty sure it's the aptly named 'html'. | > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/html | > | > I can't remember the last time I used the HTML reporting capability, | > so I'd be happy about removing it. | > | > Edward | > | > Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2014-12-30 07:03:17 - | 0500: | > > When building nofib-analyse (in nofib), I get | > > | > > /home/simonpj/local/bin/ghc -O -cpp --make Main -o nofib-analyse | > > | > > Main.hs:14:18: | > > Could not find module 'Text.Html' | > > Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. | > > | > > There are rather a lot of HTML packages. Which one is needed? | Does this meant that it's essential to install this package before | running nofib, a manual step? | > > | > > I wonder if it'd be better to remove the HTML dependency, or make | it optional? | > > | > > Simon