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    [project @ 2004-09-29 15:50:54 by simonmar] · ac941dea
    simonmar authored
    Process reorganisation: the System.Process library moves into base,
    and System.Cmd is re-implemented in terms of it.
    
    Thanks to Krasimir Angelov, we have a version of System.Process that
    doesn't rely on the unix or Win32 libraries.  Normally using
    unix/Win32 would be the right thing, but since we want to implement
    System.Cmd on top of this, and GHC uses System.Cmd, we can't introduce
    a bunch of .hsc dependencies into GHC's bootstrap libraries.
    
    So, the new version is larger, but has fewer dependencies.  I imagine
    it shouldn't be too hard to port to other compilers.
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