[ANNOUNCE] Shaking up GHC

[Ben Gamari]

Andrey Mokhov <andrey.mokhov at newcastle.ac.uk> writes:

> Herbert,
>
>> I think it's already quite convenient. After all, you're expected to
>> have a minimum GHC bootstrapping environment anyway. So having the
>> tools installed (as already do now, e.g. you need alex, happy, and
>> ghc to be able to work on GHC).
>
> I agree. Roughly, we are talking about going from:
>
> cabal install alex happy
>
> to:
>
> cabal install alex happy ansi-terminal mtl shake QuickCheck
>
Wouldn't

    git clone git://github.com/snowleopard/shaking-up-ghc shake-build
    cabal install shake-build/

be sufficient?

Cheers,

- Ben

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