[haskell-llvm] Maintainership still ongoing?

Nathan Howell nathan.d.howell at gmail.com
Mon Aug 12 16:28:15 BST 2013


I'm still using llvm/llvm-base. Just been catching up on some much needed
vacationing and have a queue of maintenance work to get to still.


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Carter Schonwald <
carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Scott,
>
> Llvm-general has a better ffi story than llvm/llvm-base.  And provides a
> nice way to map  back and forth between the Haskell AST and the llvm c++ in
> memory AST.  It's really a markedly better substrate. And there's no cruft
> in its build scripting!
>
> If you'd like to ask folks about the llvm-general  bindings, the
> #haskell-llvm irc channel on freenode is the way to go.
>
> I'm not the right person to ask about the old llvm lib, hopefully someone
> else can chime in.
>
> Cheers
>
> -carter
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, August 12, 2013, Scott West wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I recently submitted a pull request to fix a build problem for llvm-base
>> (it assumed that both shared and static libraries were always installed
>> together, which is common but not always the case).
>>
>> Upon checking on its status I noticed another bug report
>> (https://github.com/bos/llvm/issues/71) that basically had a response
>> that said the project was no longer actively maintained, and that you
>> should migrate to the new hotness.
>>
>> Apparently the new hotness is llvm-general, which is fine, but:
>>
>> Is anyone taking pull requests/merges for llvm-base?
>>
>> If not, who can I ask for commit access so I can take some of it, bos?
>>
>> Why doesn't the new hotness at least use llvm-base for its FFI stuff?
>>
>> Thanks for any information!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Scott
>>
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