ports/130218 Maintainer timeout? (lang/ghc update)

Wesley Shields wxs at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 13 17:15:26 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:55:22PM -0400, L Campbell wrote:
> *pokes the haskell@ maintainers*
> 
> Is there anything blocking the update of lang/ghc? We have an
> *ancient* version of GHC (the primary Haskell compiler) in ports --
> old enough to cause problems with Haskell library requirements. It
> really needs to be updated (or, there needs to be a newer version of
> GHC in ports).
> 
> The patch in that PR is for GHC 6.10.1; the current
> latest-and-greatest is 6.10.3 (which came out in May).
> 
> Is possible, could the lang/ghc port be brought up-to-date? If not,
> what can I do to make it possible?

The patches have become stale. If you want to submit an updated patch
(possibly going to the 6.10.3 if you want) I will do my best to make
sure it builds properly and is committed. I can't do any runtime testing
of it though.

-- WXS


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