RFC: "Native -XCPP" Proposal

[Carter Schonwald]

Indeed. This is also how we use gcc and the llvm tooling.

If we want the cpp tooling to be available as a library, that's a whole
nother set of needs.

Gmp lgpl I can brush under the rug at work because there's the various
integer simple options, this gets a bit more squirrelly otherwise.

Maybe it'd be simpler for two people to sit down for a weekend, one only
narrating the cpphs code, the other only listening and paraphrasing it into
a new program.  Copyright on text only covers literal copying.  Nontrivial
rephrasing of everything plus some rejiggering of non local structure is
not prevented by copyright law, and I doubt there are any patents in play.



On Friday, May 8, 2015, Mathieu Boespflug <mboes at tweag.net> wrote:

> [Gah, wrong From: email address given the list subscriptions, sorry
> for the duplicates.]
>
> I'm unclear why cpphs needs to be made a dependency of the GHC API and
> included as a lib. Could you elaborate? (in the wiki page possibly)
>
> Currently, GHC uses the system preprocessor, as a separate process.
> Couldn't we for GHC 7.12 keep to exactly that, save for the fact that
> by default GHC would call the cpphs binary for preprocessing, and have
> the cpphs binary be available in GHC's install dir somewhere?
>
> fork()/execvce() is cheap. Certainly cheaper than the cost of
> compiling a single Haskell module. Can't we keep to this
> separate-(and-pluggable)-preprocessor-executable scheme? We'd sidestep
> most license tainting concerns that way.
>
>
> On 8 May 2015 at 11:39, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvriedel at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 2015-05-08 at 11:28:08 +0200, Niklas Larsson wrote:
> >> If the intention is to use cpphs as a library, won't the license
> >> affect every program built with the GHC API? That seems to be a high
> >> price to pay.
> >
> > Yes, every program linking the `ghc` package would be affected by
> > LGPL+SLE albeit in a contained way, as it's mentioned on the Wiki page:
> >
> > | - As a practical consequence of the //LGPL with
> static-linking-exception//
> > |   (LGPL+SLE), **if no modifications are made to the `cpphs`-parts**
> > |   (i.e. the LGPL+SLE covered modules) of the GHC code-base,
> > |   **then there is no requirement to ship (or make available) any
> source code**
> > |   together with the binaries, even if other parts of the GHC code-base
> > |   were modified.
> >
> > However, don't forget we already have this issue w/ integer-gmp, and
> > with that the LGPL is in full effect (i.e. w/o a
> static-linkage-exception!)
> >
> > In that context, the suggestion was made[1] to handle the cpphs-code
> > like the GMP code, i.e. allow a compile-time configuration in the GHC
> > build-system to build a cpphs-free (and/or GMP-free) GHC for those
> > parties that need to avoid any LGPL-ish code whatsoever in their
> > toolchain.
> >
> > Would that address this concern?
> >
> >
> >  [1]:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/351pur/rfc_native_xcpp_for_ghc_proposal/cr1cdhb
> > _______________________________________________
> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list
> > Haskell-Cafe at haskell.org <javascript:;>
> > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
> _______________________________________________
> ghc-devs mailing list
> ghc-devs at haskell.org <javascript:;>
> http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/attachments/20150508/fb7ef377/attachment.html>