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--></style></head><body><div>I think changes to the communication protocol *are* user-facing, in that any change to the protocol could implies a breaking change between all cabal releases in the future and all GHC releases in the past.</div><div>It appears that is the case for the planned release of `semaphore-compat-2`, but I'm not 100% sure.</div>
<div><br /></div><div>In that light, I think it's good to discuss in a proposal to ensure we do not sign off lightly on such breaking changes, in particular for future versions of `semaphore-compat`.</div><div><br /></div><div>I will express support once compatibility and breaking changes are properly addressed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sebastian</div>
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<div>Von "Arnaud Spiwack" <<a href="mailto:arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io">arnaud.spiwack@tweag.io</a>></div>
<div>An "Simon Peyton Jones" <<a href="mailto:simon.peytonjones@gmail.com">simon.peytonjones@gmail.com</a>></div>
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<div dir="ltr">Quite frankly, this is barely any user-facing change at all. Technically the semaphore could previously be shared by non-Haskell processes in ways the updated proposal doesn't allow. But it's not really something people do. So it all sounds reasonable.<br /></div><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Sept 2024 at 19:10, Simon Peyton Jones <<a href="mailto:simon.peytonjones@gmail.com">simon.peytonjones@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br /></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I'm happy to support too, but I would like to see presentational changes, so the final proposal makes sense when read in 5 yrs time.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br /></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Simon<br /></div></div><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 21 Sept 2024 at 20:45, Malte Ott <<a href="mailto:malte.ott@maralorn.de">malte.ott@maralorn.de</a>> wrote:<br /></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I agree.<br />
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On 2024-09-21 09:16, Eric Seidel wrote:<br />
> Hi all,<br />
> <br />
> This seems like a sensible update to an accepted proposal.<br />
> <br />
> I recommend we accept the amendment.<br />
> <br />
> Eric<br />
> <br />
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, at 19:00, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:<br />
> > Hi all,<br />
> ><br />
> > This is minor updates to correct an existing approved proposal.<br />
> ><br />
> > I approve of these changes.<br />
> ><br />
> > Erik<br />
> ><br />
> > Adam Gundry wrote:<br />
> ><br />
> >> Dear Committee,<br />
> >> <br />
> >> Zubin Duggal proposes to amend proposal #540, which introduced the -jsem <br />
> >> parallelism control mechanism, so that it can avoid incompatibilities <br />
> >> arising from different system C library implementations:<br />
> >> <br />
> >> <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/673" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/673</a><br />
> >> <br />
> >> <a href="https://github.com/wz1000/ghc-proposals/blob/new-jsem/proposals/0540-jsem.rst" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/wz1000/ghc-proposals/blob/new-jsem/proposals/0540-jsem.rst</a><br />
> >> <br />
> >> I'd like to nominate Eric Seidel as the shepherd, since he was the <br />
> >> shepherd of the original proposal.<br />
> >> <br />
> >> Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in<br />
> >> <a href="https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process</a><br />
> >> <br />
> >> Cheers,<br />
> >> <br />
> >> Adam<br />
> >> <br />
> >> <br />
> >> -- <br />
> >> Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant<br />
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all" /><br /><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br /><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Arnaud Spiwack<br />Director, Research at <a href="https://moduscreate.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://moduscreate.com</a> and <a href="https://tweag.io" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tweag.io</a>.</div></div>
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