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From: Andrej Kacian <ticho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: OT: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:37:12
Message-Id: 43EC966E.60101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-lang/nhc98 by Duncan Coutts
1 Duncan Coutts wrote:
2 > nhc98 is a Haskell compiler.
3 >
4 > This package has been masked for several months because its memory
5 > management system makes assumptions that are no longer true on 2.6
6 > kernels. This is not easily fixable and the upstream devs no not have
7 > the time or inclination to rewrite the runtime system. See also #46943.
8 >
9 > We do hope to get Yhc into portage when it is ready. Yhc is a fork of
10 > nhc98 with a totally rewritten runtime system and many other
11 > improvements. However it is not a direct drop-in replacement for nhc98
12 > so there is no point in keeping nhc in the tree until yhc is ready.
13 >
14 > I there are no objections I will remove this package in a week.
15 >
16 > Duncan
17 >
18
19 Hello,
20
21 could you please use your @gentoo.org address for such announcements?
22 Thanks.
23
24 Kind regards,
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26 Andrej Kacian
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