Compiling nofib-analyse

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Let's do it!  Austin, would you like to commit this?

Reason: simplifies build system, in exchange for dropping a feature that no one uses.

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: Edward Z. Yang [mailto:ezyang at mit.edu]
|  Sent: 02 January 2015 21:58
|  To: Simon Peyton Jones; ghc-devs at haskell.org
|  Subject: Re: Compiling nofib-analyse
|  
|  Attached is a patch which axes HTML support in nofib-analyse.
|  I would Phab it but I don't know how to do that for submodules.
|  
|  Maybe we should drop the LaTeX support too!
|  
|  Edward
|  
|  Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of 2014-12-30 19:10:56 -0500:
|  > Pretty sure it's the aptly named 'html'.
|  > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/html
|  >
|  > I can't remember the last time I used the HTML reporting capability,
|  > so I'd be happy about removing it.
|  >
|  > Edward
|  >
|  > Excerpts from Simon Peyton Jones's message of 2014-12-30 07:03:17 -
|  0500:
|  > > When building nofib-analyse (in nofib), I get
|  > >
|  > > /home/simonpj/local/bin/ghc -O -cpp --make Main -o nofib-analyse
|  > >
|  > > Main.hs:14:18:
|  > >     Could not find module 'Text.Html'
|  > >     Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
|  > >
|  > > There are rather a lot of HTML packages.  Which one is needed?
|  Does this meant that it's essential to install this package before
|  running nofib, a manual step?
|  > >
|  > > I wonder if it'd be better to remove the HTML dependency, or make
|  it optional?
|  > >
|  > > Simon