Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Ketil Z. Malde
Ashley Yakeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 2002-02-19 14:13, Duncan Coutts wrote: So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than just Red Hat? Debian, Mandrake, FreeBSD. (I know these's SuSE) Seconded. I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the distributions

RE: Importing a reference to a non-function entity.

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Marlow
What is the politically correct way using the FFI and ghc5.03 (which I have just managed to compile from CVS) to import an externally defined object (not a function)? I have a source file containing the line foreign label default_options defaultOptions :: CString.CString for which

RE: Data constructors and pattern matching

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Marlow
It seems to me that it might be very useful for a module to export the pattern matching operators for a datatype without exporting the constructors. Suppose we have data A = X {a::Int, b::Float} And we want to maintain the invariant that b is a floating-point representation of a. So

RE: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Jim Farrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: both hugs and ghc in their Linux distro *as standard*. This could significantly help Haskell takeup amongst the unwashed masses. :-) Well, same applies for FreeBSD. And Debian. So what I mean is, can we have links to more binaries than

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Albert Lai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ketil Z. Malde) writes: I'm not sure what the point would be, if they are in the distributions anyway? Isn't it better to install them by apt-get or up2date or whatever? (In fact, I had almost thought manually downloading packages a thing of the past, but then the IT

Re: i368-pc-os2-emx port

2002-02-20 Thread Albert Lai
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On the other hand, you'd need something like mingw for OS/2 - does such a beast exist? The substring emx refers to an OS/2 version of gcc and libraries that make OS/2 look really like Unix from the programmer's point of view. (It probably even pre-dates

Re: Congrats to Mandrake

2002-02-20 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:45:15PM +0200, Lauri Alanko wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:37:52PM -, Simon Marlow wrote: Could someone who is Debian-compliant tell me where I should be pointing for Debian packages? http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/ghc5/ Though of course any