Re: Version control systems

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

The libraries question is a difficult one. We have made a lot of effort over the last 5 years to build infrastructure and code that is shared and portable across multiple implementations of the language. Is this the time to fork those supposedly "common" core libraries into ghc versions vs the rest?

I think the non-GHC implementations have been struggling for development time as it is. As you say, we've been trying to increase the amount of shared code, to reduce the burden on them. I think forking the bootlibs would represent a huge step the other way, and, as you said later in your e-mail, may be what finally kills them off. Thanks Ian