could you do a language-c release that uses 7.8 compat happy and alex?

[Carter Schonwald]

indeed! take the git conversion i did on github.com/cartazio/language-c (i
converted all the darcs commits to git!) and put it somewhere!


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Anthony Cowley <acowley at gmail.com> wrote:

> I encountered the problem in c2hs, at which point I discovered this issue
> thread: https://github.com/haskell/c2hs/issues/57
>
> So it was a "won't fix" from c2hs due to language-c being unmaintained. It
> looks like these sorts of conversations happened without looping Benedikt
> in.
>
> It will be great to see this resolved, and though nobody asked, consider
> this a preemptive +1 for giving the project some official presence on
> github.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> huh, maybe anthony reached out the wrong way, i'll cc him now
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Benedikt Huber <benedikt.huber at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>  Carter Tazio Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
>>> 10 Apr 2014 19:31
>>> its looking like you didn't do it correctly, the happy and alex updates
>>> weren't in your path!,
>>>
>> That was indeed the case, my bad. Apparently the instructions weren't
>> 100% foolproof ;)
>>
>>  Anthony Cowley has been defacto making sure language-c works on OS X
>>> 10.9 / modern clang for a while now with his wee branch, have you merged in
>>> his patches as yet? If not, why not?
>>>
>> I did not know about the "wee" branch, because I was not aware of it. If
>> I remember correctly, Anthony Cowley neither notified me, nor the
>> language-c mailing list.
>> What do you mean by "make sure language-c works"? Patches for dealing
>> with Apple extensions used in the system headers? That would be great, I
>> recently switched to OS X 10.9 as well, and noticed the problem with
>> non-standard attribute syntax, for example.
>>
>>  either way, 0.4.5 is needed :/
>>>
>> Sure, I'll take care of updating, and look at the patches if I can find
>> them.
>> Again, thanks a lot for taking care of this issue.
>>
>> cheers, benedikt
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Carter
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Benedikt Huber wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Benedikt Huber <mailto:benedikt.huber at gmail.com>
>>> 10 Apr 2014 07:28
>>>
>>> Dear Carter,
>>> thanks for the notification! I followed your instructions and uploaded
>>> language-c-0.4.4.
>>> cheers, benedikt
>>> Carter Tazio Schonwald <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
>>> 10 Apr 2014 02:58
>>> Hello!
>>> language-c on hackage wasn't prepped with the most recent happy and
>>> alex, so it can't build with 7.8
>>>
>>> if you do
>>> > cd language-c-directory
>>> > rm dist
>>> > cabal update ; cabal install happy alex
>>> >  #bump minor version in cabal file here
>>> > cabal sdist # to prep with new alex and happy
>>> > cabal upload
>>> > #happy times
>>>
>>> please let me know if ya'll can do that in the next few days, if not, i
>>> have admin acls on ahckage and can do it myself
>>> (but i'd rather not)
>>>
>>> -Carter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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