[Yhc] Killing off nhc

[Creighton Hogg]

On 6/15/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After discussions with Malcolm, there are a number of things that need
> to be done before Yhc can replace nhc:
>
> 1) Performance: Yhc must perform faster than nhc, we used to, but we
> don't anymore. Tom is going to investigate.
>
> 2) Buildability: Malcolm still can't build on his Mac, due to library
> issues. Tom is going to remove all dependencies on all libraries,
> which should enable this. Even so, we need some work on the build
> system to get the libraries working for him. I think Malcom is the
> only person who has build system problems, so perhaps we can fix this
> for him.
>
> 3) Libraries: We need to move to the Haskell.org libraries. This may
> mean increasing our build stuff, or moving to Cabal.
>
> 4) Compatability: We need to compile more programs than nhc, this
> probably comes down to primitives and libraries.
>
> 5) Bootstrapping: We need to bootstrap Yhc with itself.
>
> Moving to one nhc/Yhc derivative is clearly a good thing. If anyone
> wants to take on any of these tasks, or has insights into how we can
> do this more quickly, we'd love to hear!


Well, what's really the problem stopping Yhc from bootstrapping itself yet?
Are there spots where Yhc relies on GHC type extensions?

Cheers,
Creighton
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