Tamar Christina

Yes base has a few of those disclaimers around. In particular the Win32 stuff in base are mostly all wrong. For the `Win32` module I override the docs with ones...

Sure I'm willing to give it a go On Fri, Sep 15, 2017, 04:57 Piyush P Kurur wrote: > @Mistuke are you willing to be a platform > czar for...

@phadej thanks for the detailed response! > In conclusion, I think if GHC.Fingerprint is removed from base, Cabal will be fine. We "just" need to have some hash function, preferably...

> EDIT: jokes aside, GHCJS does compile Setup.hses, so not using cbits is justified. I don't know about the implementation, but I assume then they can't be using Base, as...

Hi, Yes it's still good to break the cabal dependency on this module. Md5 is really slow so would be good for GHC to replace it. Unfortunately my last attempt...

> > such changes have high chances of produce unintended consequences > > I disagree. The whole point of specifying location of extra programs is preferring them over what's in...

> @Mistuke: in case you missed @ulysses4ever's comment ^^^. I saw it. Sorry for my silence on this. I'm under a very tight deadline for work so will be quite...

This would be helpful for me as well, my pack names contain the output of `git describe` which when when close to a release tag will have a version number.

> It's quite unclear what "only works" means. Will things blow up if I set `close_fds` and `CreatePipe`? My best guess is something like "if any of `std_in`, `std_out`, `std_err`...

Sorry for the quiet, I'm just stretched very thin at work. I have a nice 20h flight this week and will do so then! You should get something by Friday!...