On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 05:26:23PM +0200, Sven Panne wrote:
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...
Do we really want to get into the packaging business? I'm not sure about Ketil's setup, but I don't think that gcc -traditional has broken Haskell yet (except for \ at end of line). They may do it tomorrow, of course, but then some of us already have mcpp, and others can get it.
P.S.: Ross, any schedule for a Hugs release yet?
Ah. As usual, we could to a Unix release tomorrow, but Windows needs a bit of work, and who's going to do that? I also think the next Hugs release should support HGL/SOE on Windows (currently X11 only), but there's something wrong with the graphics part of the new Win32 package and I'm not in a position to fix it. (Fixing that would make Win32 and HGL available to GHC too, and the last of hslibs deprecable.) After that, we'll have to start asking Sigbjorn nicely.