RE: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precisionarithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Bayley, Alistair
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan O'Rear http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes It's less of an issue on Linux where libgmp is dynamically linked but when thinking about using Haskell ghc for creating Windows apps it is for

Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precisionarithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Lars Oppermann
On 8/16/07, Bayley, Alistair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I believe that Brian's intention is indeed to release a commercial/proprietary app, hence it is possibly an issue for him. I'm not sure about having to distribute the code for his app; I thought the point of the LGPL

hyperlinked haskell 98 grammar

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Hercek
Hi, I was improving my Haskell knowledge lately and I created a small dhtml application which allows browsing of Haskell 98 grammar. I contains both forward and backward hyperlinks. By backward hyperlink I mean that you can click on an a production head and you get a popup list box where you

Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precision arithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 18:41 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Hi, I know this is a sensitive issue and I absolutely don't want to start any kind of discussion about the merits or otherwise of LGPL, but I was wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the runtime so that it

Re: hyperlinked haskell 98 grammar

2007-08-16 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Peter, A nice application. One suggestion: I would have implemented it so that a maximum on one backward hyperlink menu could be visible at once - try clicking on two RHS's and you'll get too menus visible at the same time. You also might want to mail this out on haskell-cafe - which is more

Re: hyperlinked haskell 98 grammar

2007-08-16 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi In addition, perhaps this should be relocated to haskell.org, if your server is not suitable for a large volume of users. I think it should also be integrated somewhere (perhaps a link from the HTML report, and certainly on the wiki) Thanks Neil On 8/16/07, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hyperlinked haskell 98 grammar

2007-08-16 Thread Esa Ilari Vuokko
On 8/16/07, Neil Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition, perhaps this should be relocated to haskell.org, if your server is not suitable for a large volume of users. I think it should also be integrated somewhere (perhaps a link from the HTML report, and certainly on the wiki) Agreed,

Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precision arithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Hulley
Stefan O'Rear wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:41:53PM +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: ... I was wondering if there are any plans to remove the GNU mp library from the runtime ... http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReplacingGMPNotes Thanks for the link. ... although the program

Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precision arithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: Sounds to me like the simlest solution for you would be if GHC could use a dynamically linked gmp.dll on Windows. That also sounds like much less work that replacing gmp completely. This would certainly make things easier though it

Re: -optl doesn't seem to pass to ld (on Windows)

2007-08-16 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
There's another level of indirection to punch through (the gcc driver); try -optl-Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup --sigbjorn Alistair Bayley wrote: -optl--enable-stdcall-fixup With ghc-6.6.1 on WinXP, I want to pass --enable-stdcall-fixup (or --disable-stdcall-fixup, depending on my mood) to ld,

Change to deriving in 6.7 ??

2007-08-16 Thread Conal Elliott
I'm running ghc-6.7.20070802 and getting a new error message that didn't show up with ghc-6.6. Code: -- | Pairing for unary type constructors. newtype Pair1 f g a = Pair1 {unPair1 :: (f a, g a)} deriving (Eq, Ord, Show) Error message: src/Data/Tupler.hs:26:0: No instances

Re: Display problem with ghci (:e) and vim

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Ilberg
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Marc Weber wrote: [...] Do you see a lot of control structures scattering around? The way you get them when using !vim within vim? (you can still use :q! do quit) No control structures. The bottom part of the file is not displayed. Also, when I open a second window

Re: hyperlinked haskell 98 grammar

2007-08-16 Thread Peter Hercek
Hi Neil, For haskell-cafe members: This is what we are talking about: http://www.hck.sk/users/peter/ I'm glad somebody liked it. I do not understand what you mean by the extension request. Would you want to see the number of references of a production head even without opening the popup list

Re: Status of GHC runtime dependency on GNU multi precision arithmetic library

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Hulley
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 14:22 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: .. For example, the LGPL requires you to give permission to people to reverse engineer your application... thus it may not even be possible for me to comply with the terms of the LGPL. From the LGPL v3:

ANNOUNCE: Bamse 1.0

2007-08-16 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Galois is pleased to announce the first public release of Bamse, a Windows Installer creator framework written in Haskell. Using Bamse, you can easily create applications that let you build Windows Installer (MSIs) for your project's product deliverables. The tool was written quite a while ago