Shake based build system for GHC

[Simon Peyton Jones]

on IRC it was brought up that there will be someone at GHC headquarters working on a Shake based build system. Can you tell us a little bit more about these plans.

Andrey Mokhov<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/eee/staff/profile/andrey.mokhov>, from the University of Newcastle, will be visiting MSR during his sabbatical, starting around 1 Oct.  I’ve suggested to him that working on a Shake-based build system for GHC would be a good project: useful to us, and interesting to him.  Neil is happy to act as adviser, as is Simon Marlow who wrote the current build system.

I’m sure Andrey would be very happy to work with others on this, if you have time and expertise to contribute.  Would you be interested?

GHC’s build system is pretty complicated and does a lot, so it won’t be a straightforward matter of cranking the handle!

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Miedema
Sent: 15 September 2014 22:28
To: ghc-devs at haskell.org
Subject: Shake based build system for GHC

Hello SPJ (cc Neil Mitchell),

on IRC it was brought up that there will be someone at GHC headquarters working on a Shake based build system. Can you tell us a little bit more about these plans.

I wanted to try implementing this as well, but am happy to work on something else.

Kind regards,
Thomas Miedema
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