Herbert, it certainly sounds like a good thing to me. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Glasgow-haskell-users [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org] | On Behalf Of Herbert Valerio Riedel | Sent: 20 July 2013 10:42 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: ANNOUNCE: ghci-ng package | | Hello GHC HQ, | | I wanted to inform you that I created the `ghci-ng` package | | http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghci-ng-7.6.3.3 | | which essentially is the ghc/* folder from the GHC source-tree with a | ghci-ng.cabal file put in place (and some dummy .h files) to make the | interactive-mode GHC front-end compilable w/o requiring the full GHC | source-tree. | | The reason I created ghci-ng was to be able to backport features from | GHC HEAD so that Haskell user not living on the bleeding edge (such as | Haskell Platform users) don't have to wait for half a year or so till | they can use new features[1]. On the other hand, this might also allow | to expose new work-in-progress features to users in production | environments to play with before those features find their way into a | final GHC release, and thus help with developing new GHCi features in a | more "agile" way by getting feedback from potential users earlier. | | So ghci-ng is *not* supposed to replace ghci, but rather provide an | testing ground for evaluating new/experimental features which may get | merged into upstream GHCi eventually if they prove useful. | | Please let me know what you think of this. | | [1]: The killer-feature right now being the new `:complete` command | which allows the latest (unreleased) haskell-mode to provide | REPL-completion from within the Emacs buffer. | | Cheers, | hvr | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users