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* merge wip-haskell?
@ 2020-08-06  8:13 Ricardo Wurmus
  2020-08-06 13:45 ` John Soo
  2020-08-07 15:03 ` Jakub Kądziołka
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Ricardo Wurmus @ 2020-08-06  8:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: guix-devel

Hey there,

wip-haskell contains commits that do a number of things aimed to reduce
the closure of packages:

1) make the “out” (and “lib”) output independent from “doc”
2) add a “doc” output to more packages
3) add a “static” output for all Haskell packages containing the “.a” files
4) change ghc-pandoc (and ghc-pandoc-citeproc) to use static linking

Number 1 required some smelly hackery: the generated configuration file
is edited to remove the “haddock-html” field.  One unfortunate effect of
doing this and moving the .haddock files is that there are now
complaints about unresolvable links in generated documentation.  I don’t
know if we can avoid this, but it seems like a small price to pay for
independent “doc” outputs.  (Otherwise we’d have to download huge “doc”
outputs even if we don’t want them.)

Number 3 required circumventing bug 41569.

Number 4 is by far the ugliest change of them all.  In order to
statically link packages we need to add all the “static” outputs of all
Haskell inputs *and* the “static” outputs of *their* Haskell inputs.
This is not easily accomplished, so I ended up using “package-closure”
on all direct inputs, and then filtered the result to packages with
names starting with “ghc-”.  If there was a more appropriate tool I’d
use it, but I don’t think it exists.

The result is a much reduced closure for ghc-pandoc and all packages
using it (such as R markdown).  We should probably rename “ghc-pandoc”
to “pandoc”, while we’re at it, because now the package contains the
executable.

I suppose we could change this so that “ghc-pandoc” is the usual library
package with a new “pandoc” package inheriting from “ghc-pandoc”.  I’ll
give that a try soon.

I’d be happy to hear your comments about all of this, and I’m looking
forward to merging this branch into “master” soon.

-- 
Ricardo


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2020-08-06  8:13 merge wip-haskell? Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-06 13:45 ` John Soo
2020-08-07 17:46   ` Timothy Sample
2020-08-07 19:53     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-09  4:29       ` Timothy Sample
2020-08-12 12:21         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-13 15:37         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-15  8:19           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-17 15:22             ` Timothy Sample
2020-08-24 15:38             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-07 15:03 ` Jakub Kądziołka
2020-08-07 15:12   ` John Soo
2020-08-07 15:46     ` Jakub Kądziołka
2020-08-07 15:59       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-07 16:08         ` John Soo
2020-08-24 15:44         ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-24 17:54           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-28 13:53             ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-08-28 14:05               ` John Soo
2020-08-28 17:29                 ` Timothy Sample
2020-08-29 15:34                   ` Timothy Sample
2020-08-29 15:54                     ` John Soo
2020-08-07 16:27   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-08-07 16:55     ` Jakub Kądziołka

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