[Fwd: Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development]

[João Paulo Pizani Flor]

Hello people,

I'm a great fan and user of Haskell since around one year ago, and have been
using it for several personal and college tasks. I also use Linux a lot, and
have been using several distros since around 2000.

I am pretty interested in doing this VM image with a development
environment, but I have a simple question about what's this all about: Are
we setting up an environment for GENERAL developmente using Haskell, or
rather is this VM image targeted at the SPECIFIC development of the Glasgow
Haskell Compiler?

In the first case, I already started some experimentation with Tiny Core
Linux (around 10MB) and I'm now waiting to put the upcoming versions of GHC
and The Platform on it :)

Cheers,

João Paulo Pizani Flor
http://pet.inf.ufsc.br/~joaopizani
Computer Science - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil


2009/6/3 Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>

> Interesting idea.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
> > To: glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org
> > <glasgow-haskell-users at haskell.org>
> > Subject: Job for someone: make a VM image for GHC development
> > Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:57:11 +0100
> >
> > I forget who mentioned this to me, but I think it's a great idea.
> >
> > Things like VirtualBox and VMWare are pretty easy to install and set up
> > these days.  It wouldn't be hard for someone to create a VM image of a
> > Linux system with a complete GHC development environment set up and
> > ready to go.
> >
> > This would have a lot of benefits:
> >
> >   * Easy to buy into: just install VirtualBox (or whatever), download
> >     the image, register it and away you go.
> >
> >   * Would make the barrier to entry much lower for someone who wants
> >     to make a small change, e.g. to the docs, or a library.  validate
> >     and 'darcs send' would Just Work.
> >
> >   * Would serve as an example of best-practice in setting up a GHC
> >     development environment.
> >
> > The hard part might be optimising the install so that we don't end up
> > with an enormous image file.  We'd probably need to find a suitably
> > minimal Linux install, or start from an existing minimal Linux VM image.
> >
> > Anyone feeling keen?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >       Simon
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