state of ghc6 on sparc

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:28:36 +0100


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> | > often...). The problem around this is in my opinion to make a
> | > Haskell98
> | > compliant trimmed down readline library which doesn't=20
> depend on the c
> | > library. It shouldn't be too difficult. I don't expect=20
> that people are
> | > using the full power of readline anyway.
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> | Making a working readline isn't that simple - you need to=20
> know something
> | about the terminal properties for one, which means being able to use
> | termcap or terminfo.
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> But if someone produced an adequate one that did the job, and=20
> that we could distribute with GHC, we'd surely use it, right?=20
>  To avoid these perpetual readline problems.

That would probably be a good idea, yes.

Cheers,
	Simon