[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98

2006-02-10 Thread Duncan Coutts
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 #

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-haskell/hugs98-graphics

2006-02-10 Thread Duncan Coutts
This package provides a simple graphics library for use with the hugs98 Haskell interpreter. It doesn't work with the older versions of hugs98 that are in portage. While it does work with newer versions of hugs98 it is unnecessary there because they come bundled with an updated version of the same

Re: [gentoo-dev] check-reqs conditionals

2006-02-15 Thread Duncan Coutts
plitObjs=NO" >> mk/build.mk + elif ! check_reqs_conditional; then + einfo "Turning off ghc's 'Split Objs' feature because this machine" + einfo "does not have enough RAM for it. This will have the effect" + einfo "of making binaries produced by

[gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
hat gives us the right flags. Or perhaps by hooking into gcc-config to have our flags updated whenever the user changes profile. Does anyone have any other suggestions? -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 10:35, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > gcc-3 supports both -nopie and -fno-stack-protector. So always using > > these would be ok if it were not for gcc-4 which doesn't grok > > -fno-stack-p

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to turn off hardened gcc flags reliably?

2006-03-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 00:41 +, Roy Marples wrote: > On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:41, solar wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 17:17 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > I presume it's a gentoo patch to gcc-4 to add back in > > > -fno-stack-protector? > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
mit to portage when we are satisfied. Of course this also makes it easy for our testers to keep up with the latest versions of ebuilds. With the combination of darcs and irc, we can get very quick turnaround on our testers finding bugs to fixing them and getting those changes back to our testers. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
tches from contributers who don't sign their patches (or if the key check fails) get forwarded to the Haskell herd's email alias so any herd member can review and apply / reject the patches. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
erhaps if we make them sufficiently hard to use then end users will not use them and we'll just get the contributers we want. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Official overlay support

2006-03-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
se we wouldn't be able to grant out outside helpers write access. So the lower latency helps to run an AT-style system and the write access allows for a safe intermediate stage in the recruitment process between AT and dev status. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
g are arm, mips and sh. (It works on mips on irix but we have problems with GOT overflow on mips linux.) -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
s including installers for win32 and OSX. The OpenBSD, FreeBSD & Darwin ports systems include ghc. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 13:32 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 + > Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote: > > > > > This is a valid issue, as ghc

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

2006-03-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
y arch team to get ghc and darcs ported but that's a separate issue. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-03-31 Thread Duncan Coutts
urial: all are ok on alpha, amd64, ppc and x86. darcs and mercurial are ok on ia64 darcs and git are ok on ppc64 and sparc git is ok on hppa and mips hppa should be easy, ghc already works there. We're working on getting ghc working on mips (it works fine on Irix) but no promises. -

[gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass

2006-05-18 Thread Duncan Coutts
omments on this going into the tree and of course we would appreciate code review etc. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New darcs.eclass

2006-05-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
Since there were no objections the darcs.eclass is now in the main tree. On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 22:58 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > Just like we have eclasses for cvs, tla etc, kosmikus has written one > that does the same thing but for darcs. > > Darcs (dev-util/darcs) is one of the

[gentoo-dev] retirement

2008-04-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
a wide range of platforms. I feel I should also apologise to jer for constantly breaking ghc on hppa ;-). Thanks also to jakub for his work filtering and redirecting bugs to us, along with the occasional helpful insight. Best of luck everyone. -- Duncan Coutts : (ex-)Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
{PY_PV}" Actually for Haskell the situation is even more fun; we have multiple haskell implementations, so we would like to install a lib and SLOT upon and correctly resolve deps for multiple haskell compilers. Fun stuff. :-) If portage people are interested in moving in this direction we ha

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:56, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > If we do go in this direction it'd be great to be able to slot on the > > ABI and still have dependencies resolved correctly. For example imagine > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 20:27 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > > > So my point is, I don't think it can be simply dismissed as ABI nonsense > > that we don't have to deal with. Being able to SLOT on the compiler > > flavour (and possi

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC about another *DEPEND variable

2006-09-23 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 06:13 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:41, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:11 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:56, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > > If we do go in t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
some time later. We have a very low barrier to entry, it's just darcs record; darcs send. Then one of the devs reviews and applies/rejects the patch. Easy. For some of our ebuilds we already have de-facto "proxy developers". -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team l

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo World Domination. a 10 step guide

2006-10-05 Thread Duncan Coutts
our overlay. Also it means we don't have to look out for upstream releases because they 'darcs send' in their updates and we just take responsibility for QA and getting things into portage cvs. -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team lead) email : dcoutts at gentoo dot org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Alexis Ballier (aballier)

2006-10-09 Thread Duncan Coutts
but at least it's functional. ;-) > He's currently finishing his master degree in computer science (another > one :P) and will be a PhD student next year. Yay, another one. I wonder how many gentoo devs have a PhD or are in the process of trying to get one... -- Duncan Coutts

Re: [gentoo-dev] a new TLP to "unify" programming langiages?

2006-10-11 Thread Duncan Coutts
'll create a bug about it > and then we can finalize the layout there.. > (I just like to keep the trace of what is being done and the related > discussions). I'd certainly say 'yay' for the Haskell team. We'd be quite happy to be a sub-project of some prog lan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Scheme herd team needs some love

2006-11-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
ng. As others have said, the best way to start is to look at fixing some open bugs or contributing new ebuilds. You'll want to take a look at the Gentoo developer handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml In particular here is the section on becoming a developer: ht

[gentoo-dev] New leader for Haskell team

2007-06-04 Thread Duncan Coutts
I'm pleased to announce that Lennart Kolmodin (kolmodin) is taking over from me as the Haskell team lead. He will be continuing our plans towards world domination, starting with getting ghc-6.6.x and related libs into a sane state and into portage. All hail our new Haskell overlord. -- D

Re: [gentoo-dev] packages.gentoo.org lives!

2007-11-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
we need to do next in our team. It's really great to have it back. > Thanks to everybody that worked on this: > - jokey, starting this version > - cla, the visual template for this version > - robbat2, way too much coding and infra wrangling Thanks folks. -- Duncan Coutts :

Re: [gentoo-dev] New developer: Justin Bronder (jsbronder)

2007-11-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
; > Please give him the normal welcome. Welcome Justin! If you like beautiful code with firm mathematical underpinnings and a slight lack of real applications you'll love Haskell ;-) You're most welcome to come chat with us in #gentoo-haskell -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

2008-02-03 Thread Duncan Coutts
age: # gets the package list from the hackage server hackport update # add a new ebuild into the local overlay hackport merge xmonad -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-21 Thread Duncan Coutts
t uses a purely functional DSL for package specifications. http://nix.cs.uu.nl/index.html -- Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell team) -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild

2008-02-24 Thread Duncan Coutts
'm taking about :) I'll try it out. Thanks for > sharing the link. > > Is there any interest in the Gentoo community to migrate to Nix? It's quite a radical departure and requires more accurate information about packages. We'll see how the NixOS people get on. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time

2005-05-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 10:42 -0600, Jason Wever wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK, let's review this again. > > If you cannot test a given ebuild on a given arch, then don't touch that > arch's keyword (unless you need to remove it for broken dependencies). > > If y