Status of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0

[Mark Lentczner]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Jens Petersen <juhpetersen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Still hope the next version could support using an already installed ghc.
>
>>
>>
>> Specificially, is this what you're after:

   - don't unpack any ghc bindist
   - use the system installed ghc & friends for all compilation and building
   - do not create any ghc tree in build/target.
   - building the packages into build/target

I'd call this option --use-host-ghc, doing the first three items above; and
add a new target that effects the fourth (and is implied by the option).
Sure... I think I can do this... or perhaps Yitzchak can ;-)


 +1. I am not that familiar with Hastache, but I can try to have a
> look/stab later if noone else is working on it.
>
Go for it! Look at Templates.hs where we build a bunch of generic
"expanders", and we have a generic
tree-to-tree-expanding-mu-files-along-the-way routine. If the chart it part
of the website, then the Website.hs should probably build a "bigger"
expander based on the one Templates.hs... etc... Also, I have additional
Release201x.hs files that have the build info for other years. I'll try to
get those pushed up today.

- Mark
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