Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree

[Jost Berthold]

Mitchell, Neil wrote:
> Hi
>
> The paragraph in the new page is better than the old one, but it makes
> sense to have the information in only one place. When looking for the
> information "getting the sources" didn't occur to me as a description of
> how to get any extra libraries (although on reflection, I'm surprised I
> didn't try it).
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil

Hi everybody,

all of you are right! :) The information I have added should definitely be
close to where --extra is explained. However, the overlap is not that big:
"Getting more packages" talks about getting a 'package of packages', all
extras in one go. What I added is information about not getting
everything, but exactly the few lib.s which you miss.
(another question is, how many people would want that...)

As a result: I suggest my paragraph should be put right below the
explanation of darcs --extra, perhaps shortened accordingly.
The only reason I made it a (tiny) new page is that I saw the extra
section "contributed doc.", so I thought I should put my contribution here
to be moved into more "official" pages by other wiki maintainers (i.e.
Neil in this case) later.

Jost


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simon Peyton-Jones [mailto:simonpj at microsoft.com]
>> Sent: 17 September 2008 1:40 pm
>> To: Mitchell, Neil; Jost Berthold
>> Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> Subject: RE: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
>>
>> good stuff -- but with a big overlap with the "Getting more
>> packages" section in
>> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/GettingTheSo
>> urces.  Do you agree? Would it be possible to merge your new
>> paragraphs into the existing page?
>>
>> If the existing page is too big and hard to navigate we could
>> break it up.
>>
>>
>> S
>> | -----Original Message-----
>> | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces at haskell.org
>> | [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
>> | Mitchell, Neil
>> | Sent: 17 September 2008 10:50
>> | To: Jost Berthold
>> | Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> | Subject: RE: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
>> |
>> | Hi Jost,
>> |
>> | Many thanks, that's perfect.
>> |
>> | I moved the page to
>> | http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/AddingLibs , and
>> | referenced it from http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building
>> |
>> | Thanks
>> |
>> | Neil
>> |
>> | > -----Original Message-----
>> | > From: Jost Berthold [mailto:berthold at Mathematik.Uni-Marburg.de]
>> | > Sent: 17 September 2008 10:36 am
>> | > To: Mitchell, Neil
>> | > Cc: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
>> | > Subject: Adding (some) libraries to a GHC tree
>> | >
>> | > Hi Neil,
>> | >
>> | > You can manually add any package which is listed in
>> | > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/DarcsRepositories
>> | > by getting it (with darcs), directly into the /libraries
>> subdirectory.
>> | > When you later use darcs-all, the added library will be included
>> | > when pulling new changes etc.
>> | >
>> | > I have added a wiki page to explain this:
>> | > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/AddingLibsToBuild
>> | > (feel free to remove it and add the material to a more convenient
>> | > place)
>> | >
>> | > HTH
>> | > Jost
>> | >
>> | >
>> | >
>> |
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