RE: [ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC

Thanks David!

Are there any plans as to how to include it in the GHC tree? Does it ship with all the libraries required to build the build system, will we have a mini-build system to bootstrap it? If I recall correctly, we rely on Cabal sandboxes on Linux/OSX and global Cabal library installations on Windows in order to run it.

The simplest way is to add the 'shake-build' folder to the GHC tree and ask first adopters of the new build system to globally install the dependencies (ansi-terminal, mtl, shake, QuickCheck). Then 'build.sh' and 'build.bat' scripts should work. I am open to suggestions on how to make this more convenient and robust. I've never used anything more advanced than a global cabal installation, so I'd appreciate input from more experienced users. Could you create a ticket on github suggesting possible approaches? I'm afraid our discussion may get lost in ghc-devs mailing list. Many thanks! Andrey

From: David Luposchainsky To: ghc-devs@haskell.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC Message-ID: <56A27EB1.1080701@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

Great work Andrey!

I'm actually (pleasantly) surprised this is becoming part of the GHC tree so soon .

Are there any plans as to how to include it in the GHC tree? Does it ship with all the libraries required to build the build system, will we have a mini-build system to bootstrap it? If I recall correctly, we rely on Cabal sandboxes on Linux/OSX and global Cabal library installations on Windows in order to run it.

Greetings, David