[Haskell-cafe] Volunteer

Hi, I learned that no one is doing generic unix source tarball, right now, and thought I might help to get it start. I have decent skills on Makefile, but knows very little about auto-tools. I can only spent a few hours every week on it, because I don't have too much spare time as a PhD student. But I still want to help, since it is quite important for Haskell to distribute as widely as possible. So, how should I start? I learned that ghc supports quite a lot of platforms in its tier2 support list through community supporters. I'm not sure what is the most convenient way to combine these into a generic source tarball. And what do we use to bootstrap ghc? Some pre-compiled binary? I'm not sure how I should start. Any insight? Best, Xiao-Yong P.S. I tried to send to haskell-platform, but got rejected. What's going on? ---------- begin error message ---------- ... while talking to community.haskell.org.:

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DATA <<< 550 Unrouteable address 550 5.1.1 ... User unknown <<< 503 valid RCPT command must precede DATA ---------- end error message ---------- -- c/* __o/* <\ * (__ */\ <