[Haskell-cafe] hsb2hs preprocessor looking for a maintainer

[Max Bolingbroke]

On 4 August 2010 11:39, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de> writes:
>> the problem is that Template Haskell does not work on all architectures,
>> so the Debian people prefer solutions that avoid TH if it is not
>> needed.
>
> Yeah, we've just come across this problem in Gentoo when dealing with
> how Haddock behaves when there's TH to be documented in some
> architectures :s

I didn't know this: is there a corresponding GHC ticket? I can't find
one, but I could just have chosen the wrong keywords. It seems like
the right thing to do would just be to make TH work properly rather
than maintain a special-purpose preprocessor.

Cheers,
Max