Hi, On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:09:36AM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
Please note: just writing a separate package for this wouldn't help much (for OpenBSD ports), because it would require changing cabal dependencies for every client application in addition to other source code patches.
Changing cabal dependencies is the right thing to do in this case. Any code that will use this function will already need specialized OpenBSD knowledge, so the likelihood of it actually being used is extremely small – whereas the cost of having a rat's nest of #ifdef usage in clients of core libraries is already well known to be high.
Ok, thank you (and Sven and Carter) for your input. So, on the long term, I'll prepare a separate package when I'm confident that it's actually *useful* for Haskell programs. For now, I'll just keep everything local to the OpenBSD ports tree to experiment a little bit with it. Ciao, Kili