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Hadrian: a new build system for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Now merged into the GHC tree!
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/tree/master/hadrian
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Involve more people #589

Closed izgzhen closed 5 years ago

izgzhen commented 6 years ago

Currently, Hadrian is more stable compared to one year ago but it lacks users to be sufficiently tested. I have some ideas about this problem:

  1. Add more text about this alternative build system in official GHC dev docs
  2. Add versioning (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH), a CHANGELOG and a release process for updating the submodule in GHC for each MINOR version bump
  3. Make a Google form asking ghc-devs to talk about their feedback
snowleopard commented 6 years ago

@izgzhen Thanks to @alpmestan we already have a quick start guide in official GHC docs:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Hadrian/QuickStart

What else do we need? If there are some specific docs, let's create separate issues for each one to discuss, assign and track progress separately.

Adding versioning and a change log is a good idea! Let's do that.

Make a Google form asking ghc-devs to talk about their feedback

Let's wait until the validation issue is solved. Until then I consider Hadrian pretty much unusable for GHC developers.

izgzhen commented 6 years ago

What else do we need? If there are some specific docs, let's create separate issues for each one to discuss, assign and track progress separately.

I think the content of the docs is already sufficient, but we need more pointers in parental pages, e.g. https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building

izgzhen commented 6 years ago

Let's wait until the validation issue is solved. Until then I consider Hadrian pretty much unusable for GHC developers.

Agreed

alpmestan commented 6 years ago

I am planning to "put the word out" a bit more strongly soon, I in fact wanted to do that last week but Andrey told me he'd really like us to properly run all tests/validation scripts before we do that. So this is definitely planned :-)

snowleopard commented 5 years ago

I think we can close this: Hadrian has been merged and we're finishing off a few issues. I hope that soon GHC developers themselves will start using and improving Hadrian.