the woes of non-cvs haskellers

[Mike Thomas]

Hi all.

| Speaking from a GHC standpoint, your efforts were/are greatly
| appreciated.

Thanks - Didn't intend to sound Sad Sack there!

| > Modulo bugs (I can only test on Windows and syncing the
| > Hdirect libraries
| > with the GHC-inplace version, rather than the version of the bootstrap
| > compiler eluded me), those changes are backward compatible
| > with the usual
| > nightly builds so there should be no problems for those who
| > want to work as usual.
| >
| > If everyone thinks that these changes might be helpful, I
| > will bring them up
| > to date and check them in.
|
| Yes, please do this.

No worries.  I did a test run today and found some new problems to do with
the binary-dist targets among other things (eg avoiding documentation
install and build on a system without the SGML tools.)

Unfortunately the turnaround is about half a working day so at most two to
three full debugging runs per day.  I'll send the results to ghc CVS
never-the-less.

Cheers

Mike Thomas.