* "Brent A. Fulgham"
On Wednesday 07 May 2003 10:00 am, Ian Lynagh wrote:
Then, when a new library is installed it would be rebuilt for any implementations installed and registered, and when GHC is upgraded it would rebuild all the libraries installed and registered. This nicely solves the problem of changing binary formats. The only subtlety I can see is making sure things get built in the right order when installing multiple packages at once.
This sounds a lot like the Common Lisp compiler system.
This sounds a lot like what I proposed aeons ago on one of the ghc mailing lists - I think. It's long ago and I don't have a reference handy now, sorry. It got shot down for some technical reasons, or complexity or so, IIRC. SimonM might remember. BTW: Brent, Ian - maybe something along the lines of what Debian does with kernel module packages? Cheers, Michael, in a hurry. :( -- /~\ ASCII ribbon | "You could wire up a dead rat to a DIMM socket and the PC \ / campaign | BIOS memory test would pass it just fine." X against | -- Ethan Benson / \ HTML mail |