October 2011

Posts published in October 2011.

Building Large Haskell Projects with waf

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I just published a little Cabal tool for waf to GitHub. We’ve been using it for quite a while for our builds, including a CI buildbot. Managing a moderate number of packages with cabal-install was getting to be a hassle… and supporting multiple languages (primarily concerning C++) in one build system was a looming requirement. cabal-dev might be an alternative for pure Haskell shops, though I haven’t used it.

Record update for insufficiently polymorphic field

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I often have the luxury of finding all sorts of underdocumented compile errors in GHC, and today was no exception. This wasn’t the first time I’ve hit this one in particular but it’s the first time I didn’t have a easy work around.