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FS#54632 - [ghc] Please readd profiled libraries or make profiled library package

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Mark Laws (mdl) - Thursday, 29 June 2017, 00:19 GMT
Last edited by Felix Yan (felixonmars) - Monday, 03 July 2017, 09:29 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Profiled libraries appear to have been intentionally removed from the ghc-8.0.2-1 package. This was not only unannounced, but the new package is also effectively feature-incompatible with the previous one. Without at least the base profiled libraries being installed, profiling is impossible, in addition to other features--here are just two of many as an example:

https://simonmar.github.io/posts/2016-02-12-Stack-traces-in-GHCi.html
https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.0.2/docs/html/users_guide/ghci.html#external-interpreter

If the reason for removing the libraries was to make the GHC package smaller, then please distribute the profiled libraries in a separate package. Without them, this package is useless to anyone who needs to use profiling or the features that require it.
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Closed by  Felix Yan (felixonmars)
Monday, 03 July 2017, 09:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Profiling libraries re-added in ghc-static 8.0.2-2.

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