upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

[Seth Kurtzberg]

Wouldn't an eclipse plug in make more sense?  (Unless one exists that I'm unaware of.)

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Seth Kurtzberg <seth at cql.com>

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:46:14 +0000
Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Krasimir,
> 
> Yes, I'm sure that's true.  I suspect the best way is for Visual Haskell to 
>   add its own configuration sections to the .cabal file, and recognise them 
> when they are already there.
> 
> Understanding the .cabal file is not a problem, but we also have to be able 
> to modify it, for example when the user adds a module.  In the presence of 
> configurations this could be tricky, but for the complex cases where we 
> can't figure out how to modify it we can just require the user to edit the 
> .cabal file by hand (since presumably it wasn't generated by Visual Haskell 
> in the first place anyway).
> 
> BTW, I was recently made aware of "Visual Studio Shell":
> 
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb933751.aspx
> 
> This is a freely redistributable Visual Studio installer that includes no 
> language support, but allows plugins.  In theory at least Visual Haskell 
> ought to run on top of it.  So then a complete Visual Haskell would be 
> available for free.  Are you (or anyone else) interested in looking into this?
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Simon
> 
> Krasimir Angelov wrote:
> > The hard work is to integrate it with the new version of Cabal. The
> > problem is that the configurations model that Cabal employs can't be
> > easily matched with the configurations in Visual Studio. For the new
> > GHC versions I expect that the changes will be more trivial.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >   Krasimir
> > 
> > On Dec 13, 2007 6:23 PM, Nicholls, Mark <Nicholls.Mark at mtvne.com> wrote:
> >> Ahhh ok....in eclipse it was trivial.....but I'd much prefer it to be in
> >> VS.
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Simon Marlow [mailto:simonmarhaskell at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: 13 December 2007 16:22
> >> To: Nicholls, Mark
> >> Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> >> Subject: Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....
> >>
> >> Nicholls, Mark wrote:
> >>> I've just downloaded the vs integration package....which looks
> >> great....but
> >>> it comes with 6.6.1, and I was hoping to move to 6.8.2....does anyone
> >> know
> >>> how to do this?
> >> No, someone needs to rebuild Visual Haskell using 6.8.2, and test it
> >> etc.
> >> There have been lots of changes in both the GHC API and Cabal, so I
> >> expect
> >> it will not be a straightforward recompile.  Also building Visual
> >> Haskell
> >> itself is no mean feat.
> >>
> >> We'd love it if someone were able to take this on.  The code for Visual
> >> Haskell is available at http://darcs.haskell.org/vshaskell.
> >>
> >> Also, we need to update it for VS 2008...
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>        Simon
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