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

[Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)]

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:37:45 +0000
Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o> wrote:

> 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@g.o> 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.

Ahem.  Sorry again - I still didn't look at the right page!

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_641.html

lists sparc, hppa, and also alpha, m68k & s390 on debian.

> 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).
>


-- 
Kevin F. Quinn