compiling h/direct

1998-08-10 Thread Jeffrey R. Lewis
Compilation fails when entering the lib subdirectory because: make[1]: Entering directory `/home/src/hdirect-230698/lib' Makefile:4: ../mk/boilerplate.mk: No such file or directory And indeed, there is no mk directory anywhere in the distribution. --Jeff

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Manuel M. T. Chakravarty
From: Timothy Robin BARBOUR [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Sigbjorn" == Sigbjorn Finne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigbjorn As part of H/Direct, we're going to support something Sigbjorn similar to JNI for the new Hugs/GHC system, see Sigbjorn

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread David Glen JEFFERY
On 09-Aug-1998, Erik Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, The Haskell Server page claims that one advantage of COM is that it "ships for free with windows". This suggests that the existence of a genuinely free CORBA ORB has been overlooked. IMHO ignoring CORBA is cutting Haskell off

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Daan Leijen
I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. Lets clarify some points: - H/Direct is a OSF DCE IDL compiler which can not only generate COM specific bindings but also for example

Re: Haskell, CORBA and Java (Was: Re: Current state of GUI...)

1998-08-10 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Manuel M. T. Chakravarty writes: .. I am quite unhappy to see these developments (e.g., H/Direct) being based on some proprietary standards, as it means that they are rather useless to me. Sigh, it's not *based* on proprietary standards - whatever gave you that idea? The IDL compiler

Re: some Standard Haskell issues

1998-08-10 Thread Simon Marlow
"Jeffrey R. Lewis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I thought the if-the-else proposal seemed odd until I followed the link and read the exact proposal. Simon: your if-then-else example on the Standard Haskell page seems at odds with the actual proposal (e.g. isn't the point that the `else' itself