On 20/07/2025 12:43, Stefan Klinger wrote:
Tom Smeding (2025-Jul-13, excerpt):
It is implemented in terms of a ReadP parser. Tom, thanks for pointing me to [4]. Yes, that looks feasible. How would I go about modifying the `base` library? Sorry if that's a stupid question, but I don't know where to start, `base` just always happened to be there already. I.e., could someone please help me to get a simple setup (my usual modus operandi is the shell, cabal, and an editor) where the base library is accessible for modification and testing?
I have never done this and others likely have more specific advice here. Base lives inside the GHC repository here [1]; there are general GHC development instructions here [2]. For specific advice and to what extent you really need to rebuild GHC in order to test a modified 'base', I redirect you to the ghc-devs mailing list [3] and the GHC matrix room [4]. [1]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/tree/master/libraries/base [2]: https://ghc.dev/ [3]: https://mail.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs [4]: https://matrix.to/#/#GHC:matrix.org - Tom