Re: Question about the portability of containers

Portability is the reason I stopped caring about my containers PR, which is a very minor addition. I have no concrete input on what to do either, even after several pings, so I gave up. https://github.com/haskell/containers/pull/592 My view on this is: if it makes people stop contributing, it is not worth it for something I don't even see a real world use case for, only theoretical ones. On June 8, 2020 4:46:17 AM UTC, David Feuer wrote:

I really *wish* we had another viable and relevant Haskell implementation we could test against. That would be *great*. The containers package is quite venerable, long predating my own involvement. For its entire life, it has had a tradition of trying to be portable. It seems somewhat sad to throw all that away. I believe there *is* an alternative option, but it will require someone to put in a significant amount of work to make it happen. The basic idea is to replace direct checks for __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ with ones for our own version of that. Normally, __OUR_GLASGOW_HASKELL__ will be equal to __GLASGOW_HASKELL__, but we can also choose to leave it undefined using a Cabal option or some such. That way, we can at least run CI with our "non-GHC" code and make sure that it still works.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 10:59 PM Fumiaki Kinoshita wrote:

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I noticed that there are massive amount of CPP pragmas to switch code

between GHC and non-GHC (e.g. https://github.com/haskell/containers/blob/v0.6.2.1/containers/src/Data/IntM...), and they are a burden for maintainers. Moreover, the non-GHC part of the codebase is untested due to the lack of viable alternative compilers (https://github.com/haskell/containers/pull/728#discussion_r436318206).

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Therefore I propose to revisit the policy for portability of core

libraries. Portability is not a bad thing, but few people use other compilers these days. The drag is only likely to increase because there's no plan (AFAIK) for a new Haskell standard.

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