it seems that this message was lost somewhere... This is a forwarded message From: Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com To: "Neil Mitchell" Date: Monday, February 20, 2006, 1:03:13 PM Subject: [Hugs-users] Status of Hugs? (last major release for Windows was 2003..) ===8<==============Original message text=============== Hello Neil, Monday, February 20, 2006, 6:31:44 AM, you wrote:

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http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~ndm/projects/winhugs.php

Yes, please try that out. When WinHugs is ready, there will be a Hugs release.

NM> It's pretty much ready now, I'll package up some final binaries NM> tomorrow - whenever Hugs is in a ready state I'm happy to release. i still have some suggestions before the final version can be rolled. it's from docs on my Streams library: The library fully supports Hugs 2003 and Hugs 2005, but 1) support for FD and MMFile is temporarily disabled because I don't know how to build DLLs 2) Hugs 2003 doesn't include support for "instance Bits Word" and vGetBuf/vPutBuf, so you need to add these implementations manually or delete the lines that use it (look for "2003" in the sources) 3) WinHugs doesn't support preprocessing, so I included the MakeHugs.cmd script to preprocess source files using cpphs so, list of my suggestions for Hugs include: * add preprocessing symbol HUGS_VERSION to distinguish Hugs06 from previous builds and to allow distinguish future Hugs modifications * (optional) add option to disable monomorphism restriction. as far as i understand this restriction is just additional part of code and it should be easy to skip this code when requested * (optional) add hSetFileSize support. it should be easy using ftruncate() and it will increase compatibility between Hugs ans GHC * afair, at least one error i reported was not fixed immmediately. i don't read hugs-bugs but if this still unfixed, it seems strange to me to release Hugs with known errors for WinHugs such list is bigger: * ffihugs * preprocessor. i'm displeased by the requirement to ship myrriad versions of my library, one for each Hugs version+platform combination. in addition, lack of preprocessor makes my edit/test cycle more complicated and less intuitive. On the other side, adding preprocessor to WInHugs should be very easy: instead of readig the source file as is just run "cpphs.exe --noline -D__HUGS__ -D__HUGS_VERSION__=2005 -DSIZEOF_HSINT=4 -DSIZEOF_HSWORD=4" or something like this on the file and read the resulting temporary file. i do't see _any_ problem in implementing this. CPPHS is easily build by ghc/mingw, its output with "--noline" don't contain any directives and all lines is just at their right places. this will finally allow to include in Hugs distribution original (non preprocessed) sources of standard libs i also have suggestions about WinHugs that should not delay its releasing: * reduce size of installer. it can be done in many ways but at least i'm not glad to download 16 megs that can be really packed in 2 megs * use text file to store global commands history thank you for patience :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com