cpp

[Alastair Reid]

> What's Knit?

A component language for C.  Announcement attached.

> Why not just distribute binaries for the platforms of interest?

People feel uncomfortable if they can't build from source themselves.
Generating binaries for a decent range of platforms is a bunch of work
(especially given the current mess in the Linux library system).

> Or runhugs scripts?

Using Hugs is attractive because it is really easy to install and very
portable.  It's also too slow to use for compiling large systems or when doing
cross-component inlining.

But even if we stick with Hugs, there's a little ffi'd C code in the system -
so they still have to compile some of the code themselves.

--
Alastair
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded message was scrubbed...
From: "Jay Lepreau" <lepreau at cs.utah.edu>
Subject: ANN: Release of "Knit" component composition toolset
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 03:30:53 -0700
Size: 2990
Url: http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/ffi/attachments/20010223/24ed84c7/attachment.eml