Announce: hs-plugins-0.9.6

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

claus.reinke:
> Don,
> 
> thanks for your answers - that looks very promising.
> 
> > Only as these are the systems that I've tested on, or that others have.
> > I don't have access to a Windows machine. hs-plugins should only be
> > limited to platforms with a working GHC dynamic loader, which is all the
> > systems I've tested on, plus Windows. Any unixy dependencies should be
> > considered bugs, and will be removed as I find them.
> 
> ah well, you do depend on a unixy build environment;-) I've got cygwin
> myself, but I can't rely on my users having such things. More seriously,
> though:
> 
> a cursory browse of the sources shows up things like "POpen" and "Posix",
> both no-nos, as far as portable ghc code is concerned (no longer supported
> in the default ghc for windows, AFAIK). it would be good if ghc-users would
> keep that in mind when writing portable Haskell code.

Ah. Good point. Well, it is portable to everything except windows, right ;)

> if you really need pipes to subprocesses, there's an apparently portable 
> implementation in wxhaskell (Graphics.UI.WXCore.Process, no graphics 
> needed - wxhaskell has lots of non-graphics widgets), or the up-and-coming 
> System.Process. don't know about the rest of the Posix modules..
> 
> i don't have much time for testing right now, and "configure;make" stalls 
> early on with a rather strange-looking message (see below), so I'll probably

Hmm. Strange. I don't have any ideas about this at the moment.

> have to leave that till next month. but, as i mentioned, i need something like
> this, and if the idea is to provide a higher-level API on top of -package ghc, 
> that sounds like a good way to go.. provided that the unix-"bugs" don't 
> stop the show.

Certainly. I'll look into this. Thanks for pointing it out!

-- Don

> -----------(windows98,cygwin,ghc-6.2.1)
> 
> cd src && make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/libraries/hs-plugins-0.9.6/src'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/libraries/hs-plugins-0.9.6/src/alt
> ata'
> =========== building altdata =============
> ghc -package-name altdata -O -Wall -fno-warn-missing-signatures  $EOPTS --make
> no-hs-main -pgmltrue AltData.hs
> Chasing modules from: AltData.hs
> Compiling AltData.Typeable ( ./AltData/Typeable.hs, ./AltData/Typeable.o )
> Compiling AltData.Dynamic  ( ./AltData/Dynamic.hs, ./AltData/Dynamic.o )
> Compiling AltData          ( AltData.hs, AltData.o )
> Linking ...
> rm -f libHSaltdata.a
> ar cq libHSaltdata.a AltData.o AltData/*.o
> ranlib libHSaltdata.a
> rm -f HSaltdata.o
> cpp -DGHC_VERSION_6_3="0" < altdata.conf.in.cpp | \
>                 sed -e 's/""//g' -e 's/\[ *,/[ /g' -e '/^#/d' > altdata.conf.in
> lace.in
> (cd /c/ghc/libraries/hs-plugins-0.9.6 ;\
>  if [ ! -f plugins.conf.inplace ]; then echo [] > plugins.conf.inplace; fi;\
>  env PREFIX=`pwd` ghc-pkg -g -f plugins.conf.inplace -u < \
>         src/altdata/altdata.conf.inplace.in)
> Reading package info from stdin... done.
> Expanding embedded variables... done.
> dependency `base' doesn't exist
> 
> make[2]: *** [inplace-pkg-conf] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/libraries/hs-plugins-0.9.6/src/altd
> ta'
> make[1]: *** [altdata] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/ghc/libraries/hs-plugins-0.9.6/src'
> make: *** [build] Error 2
> 
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