RFC: "Native -XCPP" Proposal

[Jan Stolarek]

One thing to keep in mind is that while cpphs will solve some problems of system-cpp, it will also 
bring problems of its own. I, for one, have run into problems with it when installing Agda. There 
is a very long thread here:

https://lists.chalmers.se/pipermail/agda/2014/006975.html

and twice as more on my private inbox. We've reached no conclusion about the cause and the only 
solution was to use system-cpp.

Regarding licensing issues: perhaps we should simply ask Malcolm Wallace if he would consider 
changing the license for the sake of GHC? Or perhaps he could grant a custom-tailored license to 
the GHC project? After all, the project page [1] says: " If that's a problem for you, contact me 
to make other arrangements."

Janek

[1] http://projects.haskell.org/cpphs/

Dnia środa, 6 maja 2015, Herbert Valerio Riedel napisał:
> Hello *,
>
> As you may be aware, GHC's `{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}` language extension
> currently relies on the system's C-compiler bundled `cpp` program to
> provide a "traditional mode" c-preprocessor.
>
> This has caused several problems in the past, since parsing Haskell code
> with a preprocessor mode designed for use with C's tokenizer has caused
> already quite some problems[1] in the past. I'd like to see GHC 7.12
> adopt an implemntation of `-XCPP` that does not rely on the shaky
> system-`cpp` foundation. To this end I've created a wiki page
>
>   https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Proposal/NativeCpp
>
> to describe the actual problems in more detail, and a couple of possible
> ways forward. Ideally, we'd simply integrate `cpphs` into GHC
> (i.e. "plan 2"). However, due to `cpp`s non-BSD3 license this should be
> discussed and debated since affects the overall-license of the GHC
> code-base, which may or may not be a problem to GHC's user-base (and
> that's what I hope this discussion will help to find out).
>
> So please go ahead and read the Wiki page... and then speak your mind!
>
>
> Thanks,
>   HVR
>
>
> [1]: ...does anybody remember the issues Haskell packages (& GHC)
>      encountered when Apple switched to the Clang tool-chain, thereby
>      causing code using `-XCPP` to suddenly break due to subtly
>      different `cpp`-semantics?
>
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