[Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Tibell
I'm pleased to announce the first public release of benchpress. http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/benchpress benchpress is a micro-benchmark library that produces statistics such as min, mean, standard deviation, median, and max execution time. It also computes execution

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

2008-08-19 Thread Ketil Malde
Duncan Coutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other distros are following a similar course though not yet quite as successfully as Don has demonstrated for Arch. There are similar translation tools for Gentoo, Debian and RPM-based distros What is the current recommended way to build debian

[Haskell-cafe] (fwd) OT: Cartoon Guide to Lob's Theorem

2008-08-19 Thread Benjamin L . Russell
While this is somewhat off-topic, I found this interesting reference to a cartoon guide to Lob's Theorem, so I am forwarding it to this mailing list for some enjoyment in mathematical logic: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:31:11 -0400, in gmane.lisp.scheme.plt Psy-Kosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: posix-realtime 0.0.1 (system category)

2008-08-19 Thread Galchin, Vasili
Hello, 1) I have added more to the posix realtime support. - I put in parens above because I have currently uploaded outside the Haskell Unix library .. i.e. I am still open to submitting to the Unix library. - I have also put in parens because I have not personally

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: posix-realtime 0.0.1 (system category)

2008-08-19 Thread Galchin, Vasili
oops .. features supported.. 1) asynchronous I/O 2) locked memory 3) mqueue (message queues) 4) realtime scheduling 5) timers and clocks Regards, Vasili On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Galchin, Vasili [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello, 1) I have added more to the posix realtime

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

2008-08-19 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Johan Tibell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: benchpress is a micro-benchmark library that produces statistics such as min, mean, standard deviation, median, and max execution time. It also computes execution time percentiles. Nice, I'm certainty going to use this.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

2008-08-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Tim Chevalier wrote: The trouble is that .wav files don't have metadata (ID3 tags) that specify artist, album and track names. WAV files can't have ID3 tags, but they most definitely can support metadata including all the ones you mention and much more in an LIST/INFO chunk. libsndfile

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-08-19 Thread apfelmus
Bjorn Buckwalter wrote: It seems that two options are to use either a Reader monad or implicit parameters. Using a Reader monad is straight forward enough though it requires writing/converting code in/to monadic style and adds some clutter to the formulae. It seems implicit parameters could

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unboxing VT_VARIANT in hscom

2008-08-19 Thread Krasimir Angelov
This looks like a GHC bug to me. I am pretty sure that this worked before. Variant is defined like this: data Variant = forall a . Variant (VarType a) a data VarType a where VT_DISPATCH :: VarType (IDispatch ()) From this it clear that val is of type (IDispatch ()) because the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Tibell
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bas van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Johan Tibell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: benchpress is a micro-benchmark library that produces statistics such as min, mean, standard deviation, median, and max execution time. It also computes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

2008-08-19 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Johan Tibell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will ponder how to best expose this in the interface. Nice I might have to run the action twice to avoid extra measuring overhead. I don't think it matters because the extra measuring overhead is constant over the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: benchpress 0.2.1

2008-08-19 Thread Johan Tibell
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Bas van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Johan Tibell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might have to run the action twice to avoid extra measuring overhead. I don't think it matters because the extra measuring overhead is constant over

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

2008-08-19 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:51:04AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: What is the current recommended way to build debian packages? I notice there's a step-by-step description at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Creating_Debian_packages_from_Cabal_package That's the way I recommend. Any

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs hacking sprint (25-26 October)

2008-08-19 Thread David House
2008/8/17 Eric Y. Kow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Correction! We have a tentative offer for space near *Cambridge* (thanks to Ganesh) and to Ian for picking up on the blunder. Where exactly? -- -David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] lines of code metrics

2008-08-19 Thread Greg Fitzgerald
Does anyone know of a good case study comparing a project written in C versus one written in Haskell? I'm mostly looking for a comparison of lines of code, but any other metric, such as time to market and code quality metrics could also be ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lines of code metrics

2008-08-19 Thread Jason Dagit
2008/8/19 Greg Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know of a good case study comparing a project written in C versus one written in Haskell? I'm mostly looking for a comparison of lines of code, but any other metric, such as time to market and code quality metrics could also be You can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lines of code metrics

2008-08-19 Thread Aaron Tomb
On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:12 AM, Greg Fitzgerald wrote: Does anyone know of a good case study comparing a project written in C versus one written in Haskell? I'm mostly looking for a comparison of lines of code, but any other metric, such as time to market and code quality metrics could also

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Xcode Plugin

2008-08-19 Thread Dennis Buchmann
Hello, during my search for an acceptable development environment under Mac OS X I found this Plugin for Xcode: http://hoovy.org/HaskellXcodePlugin/ Unfortunately, I'm not able to get it to run in Xcode v3.0 and the developer seems to be not contactable at the moment. So, has anyone

Re: [Haskell-cafe] lines of code metrics

2008-08-19 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Greg, Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 8:12:00 PM, you wrote: Does anyone know of a good case study comparing a project written in C versus one written in Haskell?  I'm mostly looking for a comparison of lines of code, but any other metric, such as time to market and code quality metrics

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Xcode Plugin

2008-08-19 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 19, at 13:38, Dennis Buchmann wrote: during my search for an acceptable development environment under Mac OS X I found this Plugin for Xcode: http://hoovy.org/HaskellXcodePlugin/ Unfortunately, I'm not able to get it to run in Xcode v3.0 and the developer seems Last I looked,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Tutorial on information visualization and visual analytics in Haskell

2008-08-19 Thread Jefferson Heard
The tutorial has now been updated to what I think will more or less be the final version. There are now figures where appropriate. The code has been checked, and I'm sure now that the examples work. Now that I'm done, I'll repeat the original announcement, and all can enjoy: This is the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

2008-08-19 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 8/19/08, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Chevalier wrote: The trouble is that .wav files don't have metadata (ID3 tags) that specify artist, album and track names. WAV files can't have ID3 tags, but they most definitely can support metadata including all the ones

[Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-19 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:06:23 +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: Any reason the manual steps here aren't automated? There's not much benefit from automating them (although if someone did so, with a nice way to edit the description etc, then it would be handy). The vast majority of the time in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: wavconvert 0.1.1

2008-08-19 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Tim Chevalier wrote: I stand corrected. However, some CD ripping programs don't fill in the metadata when creating WAV files. Its not just some, its the vast majority of them :-). Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo