On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 21:13 -0700, John Meacham wrote:
Hi, I am happy to announce the jhc optimizing haskell compiler version 0.7.1.
Congratulations on getting a public release out. A few comments: 1. Would it be possible to have a machine-readable form of: jhc --list-libraries It's possible to parse the output of course but the worry is always that the format will change again. 2. In older jhc versions it was possible to specify .hl libraries by name and version, eg jhc -p filepath-1.0.1.1. In the latest release it is only possible by name. Is this intentional? I know jhc uses hashes to uniquely identify installed packages, perhaps it should be possible to specify packages by hash for the case that one has several instances of the same package (possibly different versions, or built against different versions of various dependencies). 3. Related to 1 and 2, what does the jhc --list-libraries output look like when there are several packages of the same version but with a different hash? Maybe a machine readable --list-libraries should list the hash too. 4. Is there a way to get back the library/package description that jhc bakes into the .hl files? There's a --show-ho. Perhaps we want a --show-hl that dumps the library description? I guess that should also tell us the package hash. 5. The ./configure doesn't check for the Haskell readline package. Duncan