Status of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0

[Jens Petersen]

On 14 July 2014 23:25, Mark Lentczner <mark.lentczner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Yes!


> +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.
>

Okay, thanks

Jens
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