[ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On 23 January 2016 at 19:45, Ben Gamari <ben at smart-cactus.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure I follow. Edward's --make support is a front-end
> plugin; as far as I know there has been no discussion of shipping it
> with GHC-proper. It merely makes use of the new front-end plugin
> facility. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here?

You likely aren't, and I'm probably under-informed.

Viewing 'ghc --make' as a core feature of ghc-the-executable, I've
assumed Shake (the lib) to be a build-time+run-time requirement.