From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: on cabal revisions Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:28:16 +0200 Message-ID: <877e9nrjxb.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87v9xbmmid.fsf@ngyro.com> <87r27xa7f0.fsf@ngyro.com> <2CEDD93D-5200-4B3E-AA2E-BA1FE6168B40@vllmrt.net> <87d0jgnpqz.fsf@ngyro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hbsoY-00036i-IQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:28:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbsoV-00025o-7z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:28:45 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hbsoS-0001l9-Do for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:28:41 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d0jgnpqz.fsf@ngyro.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Timothy Sample Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Robert Vollmert Timothy Sample writes: >> I=E2=80=99ve been >> wondering whether guile scales well with module size. It appears that ci= rcular >> imports between package modules are not a problem? Personally I=E2=80=99= d like to >> see the haskell compiler in a different module from hackage modules. > > We are moving towards this in general. The =E2=80=9Cguile.scm=E2=80=9D a= nd > =E2=80=9Cguile-xyz.scm=E2=80=9D split is a recent example of this. Separating the compiler packages from the libraries and applications written in the language is a goal. We need the work to be done for at least Java and for Haskell. -- Ricardo