Confused about the sub-modules

[Simon Peyton Jones]

Info here.  I hope it is up to date

    https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Repositories

If it's out of date, please fix!

Simon

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Edward Z.
|  Yang
|  Sent: 21 December 2016 06:49
|  To: Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com>
|  Cc: ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org>
|  Subject: Re: Confused about the sub-modules
|  
|  Once the commit is upstream, I just checkout a newer commit from master and
|  then commit it as a submodule update. Maybe it's wrong but no one has ever
|  told me otherwise.  Around release time the release manager makes sure all
|  the libraries correspond to actual releases.
|  
|  Edward
|  
|  Excerpts from Erik de Castro Lopo's message of 2016-12-21 17:33:36 +1100:
|  > Hi all,
|  >
|  > I'm a bit confused about how the GHC dev tree handles submodules like
|  > libraries/Cabal, libraries/process, libraries/directory and
|  > libraries/containers.
|  >
|  > All of these libraries/submodules seem to have their own github
|  > projects where people can submit PRs, but once the commits have been
|  > made there, what is the process to get submodules updated in the GHC tree?
|  >
|  > Any light people can shed on this process would be appreciated.
|  >
|  > Erik
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