Simon Marlow

If that would be easier from your perspective it's OK to have the source of truth be the GHC sources. Just one thing: we have to keep the Eden and...

> I don't see the reason(s) why we have to keep Eden/Mercury events in GHC's header file. Could you elaborate? Ok, if we block out the reserved parts of the...

Hi @treeowl - I'm inclined to be very conservative with merging further changes to this package, given that we've all become confused at one time or another about how things...

It looks like this error will be produced if `pthread_create` returns `EAGAIN`. According to the man page on my system (Linux 4.6): ``` EAGAIN Insufficient resources to create another thread....

I strongly support this proposal, and I'd like to see an agreement reached on the path forwards as soon as possible. I don't have strong opinions on the actual mechanisms;...

> What would be the reason to keep the lower bound requirement? It should be the same level of complexity to infer lower bounds as upper bounds, and given how...

Good point. Automated testing can discover incorrect lower bounds, and in that case the inferred bounds would be correct - so solving would work - but we should also notify...

> 1) Original cabal files are always there, this is just layered on top and integrated so cabal-install doesn't need to know about this system. But the "layer on top"...

> "cabal install should build the same thing as cabal get followed by cabal build." -- this is as far as I know how it works at the moment. The...

Thanks for the report, I agree it looks suspicious. It's been a long time since I debugged anything in Happy and the code is quite inscrutable. I fear I wouldn't...