Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

[Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:32 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 +0000
> Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:
> > 
> > > This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for linux
> > > (some older versions available in mingw32).
> > 
> > I don't think this is right. All the recent ghc versions have been
> > supplied upstream on many OSs including installers for win32 and OSX.
> > The OpenBSD, FreeBSD & Darwin ports systems include ghc.
> 
> Sorry, yes - I looked at the snapshot download pages where it's linux
> and mingw32) instead of the release download pages (where it's linux
> x86, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 and windows, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, MacOS X
> and AIX).
> 
> However the issue still remains for non-x86/ppc platforms; sparc in
> particular is likely to be used as a dev platform by some.

I use ghc and darcs on my sparc box all the time. ghc-6.4.1-r2 is
currently marked stable on sparc. darcs is currently marked ~sparc.

I'm currently working on ghc for ia64 since Aron Griffis was interested
in using darcs on ia64. It's looking good so far.

As Flameeyes pointed out our main problem is with the various Gentoo/ALT
systems where we don't have quite enough developer time to allow ghc to
get near the top of the TODO list (though we do have it working with ppc
osx).

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