Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hayoo and Hoogle (beginner question)

2009-12-07 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Monday 07 December 2009 10:24:37 Lyndon Maydwell wrote: I had heard that Hoogle actually compiled any type-signatures, where as Hayoo just did a text comparison. I'm not actually sure if this is true or not though. If it is, it would mean that [q] - [r] - [(q,r)] would return zip in

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.4

2009-07-08 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hello! We are pleased to announce the next beta version 0.4 of Hayoo!, the Haskell API search engine with find-as-you-type and suggestions. Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo This release includes some major changes to the web interface: - The full description of a function

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on JVM

2009-06-26 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Incidentally, I am looking for someone well versed in the JVM who wants to help spearhead a JVM back end for jhc. I would love to see this! With the current advent of all those languages targeting at the JVM (Groovy, Scala, Clojure) I think a JVM backend for a Haskell compiler could,

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.3

2009-01-25 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hello! We are pleased to announce the next beta version 0.3 of Hayoo!, the Haskell API search engine with find-as-you-type and suggestions. Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo Basically, there is one new major feature available: Hayoo! now works even if your browser does not

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.2

2008-07-29 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hi all, thanks for all the feedback! We have just uploaded a new Hayoo! index, which fixes several small glitches (for example, in the function descriptions) but the most important thing is, that it does include the docs for Gtk2hs now. Additionally, we are working on a function to restrict

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.2

2008-07-23 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hello, we are pleased to announce the second beta release of Hayoo!, a Haskell API search engine providing advanced features like suggestions, find-as-you-type, fuzzy queries and much more. Visit Hayoo! here: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo The major change is the inclusion of all packages

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hs-plugins compile error

2008-06-03 Thread Timo B. Hübel
What is the status of hs-plugins? I recently tried to install the version plugins-1.2 on hackage, using a Gnu/Linux box with Fedora 9 and ghc-6.8.2, but didn't get past the configure stage (see config.log below). I am getting exactly the same error on a Gentoo box. I've tracked it down to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-08 Thread Timo B. Hübel
However, I have found two bugs, or annoyances: Using Opera 9.27 or Internet Explorer 7, - Search results vanish when using the back button Yes, that is a known problem. Although I have no good idea how to solve this while keeping the AJAX stuff (that is, find as you type). - the Source and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-08 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hello, thanks for all the feedback so far! We have just deployed some minor updates for Hayoo!, mainly improving the ranking mechanism. It should now prefer modules from the Prelude as well as functions exactly matching the query terms. Additionally, we have started a blog about Hayoo! and

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-06 Thread Timo B. Hübel
, some informations and a Darcs repository are available at the Holumbus homepage: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de Any suggestions and feedback is highly welcomed. Cheers, Timo B. Hübel Sebastian M. Schlatt ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-06 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Sunday 06 April 2008 16:38:03 Richard Kelsall wrote: Little detail : After visiting a page that appears in the search results then doing a back button the search I did is no longer there. (On my eccentric Firefox setup anyway.) Hm, that's strange. I know about this problem when using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-06 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Sunday 06 April 2008 20:31:09 you wrote: Overall feedback: Cool! So far, I like Hayoo!, and I'm therefore interested in Holumbus. Is there some technical overview available? Currently, only what you can find on http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de but we will try to extend the site in the near

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANN: Hayoo! beta 0.1

2008-04-06 Thread Timo B. Hübel
I'm not sure if this is documented or not, but for those interested in creating a search template for Firefox, Quicksilver and the like, it is possible to use a URL such as this to enter a search term: http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html?query=catmaybes Well, it is not really

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-30 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:03:27 you wrote: Just don't use hGetContents in any serious code, or any program longer than 4 lines. What else do you suggest? I just want to read something out of the socket without knowing it's length beforehand (my example here used ordinary Strings, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-30 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:32:42 you wrote: Timo B. Hübel wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 13:03:27 you wrote: Just don't use hGetContents in any serious code, or any program longer than 4 lines. What else do you suggest? I just want to read something out of the socket without

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-30 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 14:09:31 you wrote: This sounds good, but don't I throw away all (possible) performance gains of transmitting ByteStrings directly when using show/read to convert them to ordinary strings and back? Probably not all of them, but some of them, definitely. If

[Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-29 Thread Timo B. Hübel
Hello, I am using the very simple interactTCP example from [1] to play around with Haskell network programming but I just can't get a simple client for that example to work (it works like a charm with my telnet client, as described in the article). This is what I am trying to do with the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-29 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 14:44:42 Mads Lindstrøm wrote: If you replace the `putStrLn (show res)` with this:   mapM_ (\x - putStr (show x) hFlush stdout) res it works. Hm, unfortunately not for me (Linux, GHC 6.8.2) ... I _think_ the problem is that `putStrLn  (show res)` will wait until

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple network client

2008-01-29 Thread Timo B. Hübel
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 17:12:19 you wrote: There was a similar bug in lazy bytestring's hGetContents a while back which involve it waiting for a whole chunk and not returning short reads, but from watching the strace of this code, GHC is reading byte-by-byte (which is actually pretty dumb,