New subject: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree

17 Sep 2008

      Mitchell, Neil wrote:
...
Hi
The paragraph in the new page is better than the old one, but it makes
sense to have the information in only one place. When looking for the
information "getting the sources" didn't occur to me as a description of
how to get any extra libraries (although on reflection, I'm surprised I
didn't try it).
Thanks
Neil
Hi everybody,

all of you are right! :) The information I have added should definitely be
close to where --extra is explained. However, the overlap is not that big:
"Getting more packages" talks about getting a 'package of packages', all
extras in one go. What I added is information about not getting
everything, but exactly the few lib.s which you miss.
(another question is, how many people would want that...)

As a result: I suggest my paragraph should be put right below the
explanation of darcs --extra, perhaps shortened accordingly.
The only reason I made it a (tiny) new page is that I saw the extra
section "contributed doc.", so I thought I should put my contribution here
to be moved into more "official" pages by other wiki maintainers (i.e.
Neil in this case) later.

Jost
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Peyton-Jones [mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com]
Sent: 17 September 2008 1:40 pm
To: Mitchell, Neil; Jost Berthold
Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
Subject: RE: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
good stuff -- but with a big overlap with the "Getting more
packages" section in
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSo
urces.  Do you agree? Would it be possible to merge your new
paragraphs into the existing page?
If the existing page is too big and hard to navigate we could
break it up.
S
| -----Original Message-----
| From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org
| [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of
| Mitchell, Neil
| Sent: 17 September 2008 10:50
| To: Jost Berthold
| Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
| Subject: RE: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
|
| Hi Jost,
|
| Many thanks, that's perfect.
|
| I moved the page to
| http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/AddingLibs , and
| referenced it from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
|
| Thanks
|
| Neil
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Jost Berthold [mailto:berthold@Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de]
| > Sent: 17 September 2008 10:36 am
| > To: Mitchell, Neil
| > Cc: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
| > Subject: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
| >
| > Hi Neil,
| >
| > You can manually add any package which is listed in
| > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsRepositories
| > by getting it (with darcs), directly into the /libraries
subdirectory.
| > When you later use darcs-all, the added library will be included
| > when pulling new changes etc.
| >
| > I have added a wiki page to explain this:
| > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/AddingLibsToBuild
| > (feel free to remove it and add the material to a more convenient
| > place)
| >
| > HTH
| > Jost
| >
| >
| >
|
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RE: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree

Jost Berthold

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