[haskell-llvm] Looking to transition maintainership of the llvm package(s)

Nathan Howell nathan.d.howell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 15:01:44 GMT 2013


I'd also be happy to act as a maintainer, my username is NathanHowell. I
have a port for the type-nats branch of GHC (dropping the type-level dep),
as well as a stack of fixes I've found useful over the years.

-n


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Henning Thielemann <
lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Marcelo Sousa wrote:
>
>  Hello Bryan,
>> I forked the repository and I have been updating it to newer versions of
>> LLVM and also extending the LLVM
>> C++ and C binding libraries  because they are quite incomplete.
>> My repository is at: https://github.com/**marcelosousa/llvm<https://github.com/marcelosousa/llvm>
>> .
>> I could definitely be one of the maintainers since I'm still using the
>> library quite extensively and I'm
>> interested on it to be up to date to extract the bytecode information
>> accurately. I'm not interested in
>> using the library for code generation so someone could maintain that part.
>>
>
> ... I did another fork in order to update to type-families, since in
> GHC-7.4 the handling of functional dependencies became so slow in a
> particular case that one of my modules needed 15min to compile. Since I
> find git dangerous (pushed to wrong branch several times) and the WWW based
> frontend of github extremely cumbersome I made my fork in darcs:
>
>   http://code.haskell.org/~**thielema/llvm-tf/<http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/llvm-tf/>
>
>
> If there are maintainers who are happy with git, then I am ok with
> contributing to git, though. I am willing to merge my fork to the new llvm
> HEAD.
>
> I also develop the llvm-extra package that adds some nice features on top
> of 'llvm'. Maybe the new maintainers want to integrate some of the
> functionality into the base package:
>
>   http://code.haskell.org/~**thielema/llvm-extra/<http://code.haskell.org/~thielema/llvm-extra/>
>
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