Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 07:30:13 +0000 (UTC) From: Gabor Pali <pgj@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r42206 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status Message-ID: <201307090730.r697UDpH094668@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: pgj Date: Tue Jul 9 07:30:13 2013 New Revision: 42206 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42206 Log: - Add Q2 status report entry for the FreeBSD Haskell team Submitted by: ashish Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:24:27 2013 (r42205) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-04-2013-06.xml Tue Jul 9 07:30:13 2013 (r42206) @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries --> <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work! This report - contains 21 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> + contains 22 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p> <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions --> <p>The deadline for submissions covering between July and September 2013 @@ -1231,4 +1231,66 @@ &os; GNOME and KDE teams.</task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='ports'> + <title>&os; Haskell Ports</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Gábor</given> + <common>Páli</common> + </name> + <email>pgj@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + + <person> + <name> + <given>Ashish</given> + <common>SHUKLA</common> + </name> + <email>ashish@FreeBSD.org</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Haskell">&os; Haskell wiki page</url> + <url href="https://github.com/freebsd-haskell/ports/">&os; Haskell ports repository</url> + <url href="http://haskell.inf.elte.hu/packages/">Experimental pkg(8) package repositories</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>We are proud to announce &os; Haskell Team has updated the + Haskell Platform to 2013.2.0.0, GHC to 7.6.3, as well as updated + existing ports to their latest stable versions. In this update, + we provided experimental support for LLVM-based code generation + (disabled by default) to Haskell ports. We also added number of + new ports, which brings their count in &os; Ports Collection to + 402, and now Haskell ports play nicer with + <tt>portmaster(8)</tt>-based upgrades.</p> + + <p>In cooperation with Konstantin Belousov and Dimitry Andric, we + have managed to unbreak build of GHC on 32-bit 10.x systems, so + we have packages for 10.x again. However, it turned out that + this bug (in thread signal delivery) can also affect the + building process for other platforms as well, which explains + some of the strange build breakages our users experienced in the + past.</p> + + <p>We have also learned that there is an <a + href="http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-June/001506.html">ongoing work</a> + in GHC upstream which will allow us to provide support for + building with Clang natively once GHC 7.8 becomes part of + the Haskell Platform.</p> + </body> + + <help> + <task>Test experimental Clang/LLVM code generation support to + enable it by default.</task> + + <task>Commit pending Haskell ports to the ports tree.</task> + + <task>Port more (popular) Cabal packages.</task> + </help> + </project> </report>
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