[Freebsd-haskell] GHC 6.12.2 out!!

Ashish SHUKLA wahjava.ml at gmail.com
Thu Apr 22 07:42:54 EDT 2010


Gabor PALI writes:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Well, they're the bootstrap tarballs, which port downloads and installs
>> temporarily in 'work' directory to bootstrap installation.

> I do not build them with the "ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-boot" (but
> "ghc-$(ProjectVersion)") directory similarly to the vanilla Linux
> binary packages, thus they can be hardly used for bootstrapping
> purposes in the classical way.  Yesterday I repacked all the bootstrap
> we have for GHC 6.10.4 (to unbreak lang/ghc), and I got tarballs of
> ~38 MB each by omitting profiling libraries and documentation.  I
> think they should remain compact as possible.  It is easy for me to
> build separate bootstraps and vanillas, since I use almost the same
> environment for them.  (I would like document the exact process on the
> GHC wiki soon.)

Yes, compact tarballs would be better. But we need documentation in those
tarballs.

>> And what about schedule of IRC meetings ?

> I am fine with them (every or every other Saturday, around 19:00 CEST,

CEST ? Can you mention the UTC offset instead ? Mine is UTC+0530.

> #haskell-FreeBSD @ freenode), however this week I might not be able to
> make it.

No problems.

-- 
Ashish SHUKLA
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