Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

Hi Ralf,

> the tuple instances did not make it into GHC 6.2 because of CVS 
> branching policy. GHC CVS HEAD compiles the example.
> And yes, SPJ approved recently that Language.Haskell.Syntax should 
> derive Data and Typeable.

okay, thanks (seems there's always a reason to look forward to the
next release, and the one after, and .. ;-). 

[has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so 
 windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?]

For context: I wanted to show people in the haskell tools thread

- how easy it is these days to write a Haskell program transformation
    for instrumenting source code with asserts, e.g. to get location info
    for heads of empty lists :-)
- why these lovely new tools won't be used because even without 
    transformations they don't reproduce the source :-(

But as they can't use this in the current release anyway, I'll leave
it at that.

> But, I can't access cvs.haskell.org.

>From the mailing lists, I recall there was a problem with cvs a while
ago, after which people had to reestablish their access rights with 
whoever holds those.

Cheers,
Claus