* [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98
@ 2006-02-10 13:17 Duncan Coutts
2006-02-10 13:34 ` OT: " Andrej Kacian
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From: Duncan Coutts @ 2006-02-10 13:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
nhc98 is a Haskell compiler.
This package has been masked for several months because its memory
management system makes assumptions that are no longer true on 2.6
kernels. This is not easily fixable and the upstream devs no not have
the time or inclination to rewrite the runtime system. See also #46943.
We do hope to get Yhc into portage when it is ready. Yhc is a fork of
nhc98 with a totally rewritten runtime system and many other
improvements. However it is not a direct drop-in replacement for nhc98
so there is no point in keeping nhc in the tree until yhc is ready.
I there are no objections I will remove this package in a week.
Duncan
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* OT: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98
2006-02-10 13:17 [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98 Duncan Coutts
@ 2006-02-10 13:34 ` Andrej Kacian
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From: Andrej Kacian @ 2006-02-10 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Duncan Coutts wrote:
> nhc98 is a Haskell compiler.
>
> This package has been masked for several months because its memory
> management system makes assumptions that are no longer true on 2.6
> kernels. This is not easily fixable and the upstream devs no not have
> the time or inclination to rewrite the runtime system. See also #46943.
>
> We do hope to get Yhc into portage when it is ready. Yhc is a fork of
> nhc98 with a totally rewritten runtime system and many other
> improvements. However it is not a direct drop-in replacement for nhc98
> so there is no point in keeping nhc in the tree until yhc is ready.
>
> I there are no objections I will remove this package in a week.
>
> Duncan
>
Hello,
could you please use your @gentoo.org address for such announcements?
Thanks.
Kind regards,
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