On Wednesday 04 June 2003 4:57 pm, Isaac Jones wrote:
I also heard that nhc is using a forked version of Greencard for instance (this may be neither here nor there) which is the root of my comment:
We believe that NHC works with the version of greencard in the repository at the moment. (We haven't actually tried this because, until recently, nhc didn't implement the ffi faithfully enough to be worth trying. I believe this has now changed.) But... The NHC folks forked GreenCard and made a bunch of extensions to their copy in pursuit of their work on reducing size and overhead and used these extensions heavily in their libraries. So, if you want to build their libraries, you need their greencard but if you want to build a library for hugs and ghc, you need the official version of greencard. It would be good to review the extensions NHC's version provides and see which should be added to the official version and which can be dropped with little cost. This is probably best done by some third party that wants to use an NHC library with GHC/Hugs. -- Alastair