Re: Haskell in Debian
On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:00:31PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 04:06:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Sorry, you are right, it is the hugs package who is non-free, didn't know there
> > was a free version around.
>
>
> In related note, according to unofficial information from Simon Peyton
> Jones (the primary author of GHC), the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) will
> become free RSN. Currently GHC has no license. I've tried to bootstrap
> it but it is so big a beast that I'll probably let it pass. I hope
> someone else packages it when it becomes free.
It is good news though it is only unofficial one. I've tried to build
4.02, it took me 4 hours on my K6-233 box and costed more than 100MB
disk. I'd like to apply to become a Debian maintainer and package it,
if no one want to take it.
Regards,
Zhu Rui
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