<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 15px;">[RESENT MESSAGE — see <a href="https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html" class="">https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devops-group/2017-October/000004.html</a>]</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">According to <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/TeamGHC</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">it is Páli Gábor János aka pgj whose last commit was 20 Jul 2016:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <a href="https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652" class="">https://github.com/ghc/ghc/commit/0df3f4cdd1dfff42461e3f5c3962f1ecd7c90652</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Manuel</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 09.10.2017 um 19:02 schrieb Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" class="">marlowsd@gmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">The usual requirement for a platform to be in Tier 1 is that there's an active maintainer to fix issues as they arise. Do we have a maintainer for the FreeBSD port?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 October 2017 at 06:38, Manuel M T Chakravarty <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io" target="_blank" class="">manuel.chakravarty@tweag.io</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mathieu sunk quite a bit of time over the weekend into building GHC on FreeBSD and found that it doesn’t build and hasn’t been building for a while. Specifically, there is<br class="">
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<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14064" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/<wbr class="">ghc/ticket/14064</a><br class="">
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<a href="https://github.com/haskell/unix/issues/102" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/haskell/<wbr class="">unix/issues/102</a><br class="">
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Also, due to<br class="">
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<a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12695" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/<wbr class="">ghc/ticket/12695</a><br class="">
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FreeBSD builds need to be configured specially.<br class="">
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This leads to my question:<br class="">
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** Why is FreeBSD in Tier 1? **<br class="">
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(See <a href="https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/<wbr class="">ghc/wiki/Platforms</a>)<br class="">
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It seems that nobody is sufficiently interested in FreeBSD to fix these issues. I don’t think it is fair to hold up releases of true Tier 1 platforms only because FreeBSD issues haven’t been fixed. Moreover, as we discussed on a separate thread, FreeBSD introduces additional constraints/work in the CI setup.<br class="">
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I’d like to propose to move FreeBSD to Tier 2. Is there any good reason not to?<br class="">
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Cheers,<br class="">
Manuel<br class="">
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PS: If anybody is using GHC on FreeBSD in a mission-critical way, that would be a good reason, but then I would expect that party to commit some resources to help us out.<br class="">
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