Hi, Sven Panne wrote:
Henrik Nilsson wrote:
[...] (Unless everyone uses "cpphs", then, which ultimately would seem like a good idea.)
If you mean "everyone happy with a LGPL", then I would agree. But GHC and Hugs use a BSD-style license, so cpphs is not an option for them. After some googling and testing I found MCPP (http://directory.fsf.org/MCPP.html), which is a highly configurable preprocessor with a small footprint and a BSD license. Shipping this as an internal tool with GHC 6.4 and the next Hugs release (especially for use with the hugs-package tool) should be possible, I see what I can do...
My point was more a plea for a CPP-like preprocessor that understands Haskell's lexical syntax, which, as far as I know, is what "cpphs" is about, than an argument for any particular preprocessor. I had a look at the MCPP documentation, and while configurable, it still seems totally C-centric. So I'd guess you are talking about creating a modified version of MCPP tuned to Haskell? Could an alternative possibly be to resolve the licence issue instead? /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science and Information Technology The University of Nottingham nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.