Fw: Help Creating Libraries

[Dominic Steinitz]

Dominic Steinitz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dominic Steinitz" <dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com>; "Simon Peyton-Jones"
<simonpj@microsoft.com>
Cc: <libraries-request@haskell.org>; <glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Help Creating Libraries


> I've tried building the libraries tree but got the following. Can anyone
> help?
>
> I'm not sure what name to give the proposed crypto library. Should it be
> Data.Crypto?
>
> [dom@tility libraries]$ make boot
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ===fptools== Recursively making `boot' in base haskell98 network
haskell-src
> ...
> PWD = /home/dom/fptools/libraries
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ==fptools== make boot -r;
>  in /home/dom/fptools/libraries/base
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/prelude/primops.txt', needed by
> `GHC/PrimopWrappers.hs'.  Stop.
> make: *** [boot] Error 1
> [dom@tility libraries]$
>
> Dominic Steinitz
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com>
> To: "Simon Peyton-Jones" <simonpj@microsoft.com>; "Dominic Steinitz"
> <dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:48 AM
> Subject: RE: Help Creating Libraries
>
>
> Hi Dominic,
>
> There are two ways to add libraries: do it directly in a GHC tree using
> our build infrastructure, or try to do it on your own.  We tried to get
> some interest going in developing a separate build infrastructure for
> people in your position (see discussions on the GHC lists), but that
> effort seems to be stalled.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Peyton-Jones
> > Sent: 07 April 2003 08:51
> > To: Dominic Steinitz; Simon Marlow
> > Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones
> >
> > Dominic
> >
> > Excellent!  Simon is the library king, but he's away today.
> > I think it goes like this: you agree with Simon (and
> > preferably the libraries@haskell.org) libraries list what the
> > name and signature of your module will be.  We give you CVS
> > access.  You check out the libraries tree (no need to build
> > GHC if you don't want to) and add your library.  With Haddock
> > documentation.  That's it.
> >
> > But it ought to be documented -- then more people might do it!
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > | -----Original Message-----
> > | From: Dominic Steinitz [mailto:dominic.steinitz@blueyonder.co.uk]
> > | Sent: 06 April 2003 17:09
> > | To: Simon Peyton-Jones; Simon Marlow
> > |
> > | Simon & Simon,
> > |
> > | I'd quite like to create a crypto library. There are some
> > modules already
> > | scattered around the place: md5, sha1, des and rsa. I've
> > just added cipher
> > | block chaining mode to the existing des module.
> > |
> > | I'd be grateful for any advice on how to set about creating
> > a library. Do I
> > | have to check out the ghc source from CVS and build it and
> > somehow add an
> > | extra library? Is there a document describing how to do it?
> > Should I be
> > | asking this question on the libraries mailing list?
> > |
> > | Dominic Steinitz
> > |
> >
> >
>