Re: haddock arguments

2013-06-22 Thread Carter Schonwald
oops, forgot to link to my example setup.hs https://gist.github.com/cartazio/5842786 there yah go On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you can probably set the flags for the it much more nicely via > http://hackage.haskell.

Re: haddock arguments

2013-06-22 Thread Carter Schonwald
I think you can probably set the flags for the it much more nicely via http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Cabal/1.16.0.3/doc/html/Distribution-Simple-Program.htmland the haddockProgram record. heres an example Setup.hs that does something very, similar, in this case making sure that "-pgm

Re: Gearing up for a 1.18 release

2013-08-10 Thread Carter Schonwald
this is great! Also: REALLY important, because 1.18/1.17 has the right hooks to make sure ghc 7.6 on macs works correctly with the xcode 5 CLI tools, and having 1.18 out will make it very very very easy to walk people through the fix needed to use ghc with clang correctly. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 a

Re: Gearing up for a 1.18 release

2013-08-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
relatedly: has Luite's patches been added yet? (are those the cross compilation patches you're talking about?) On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > On 2013-08-20 at 10:26:07 +0200, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Johan Tibell > wrote:

Re: Gearing up for a 1.18 release

2013-08-23 Thread Carter Schonwald
Does this include the API changes luite needs? If not, could you give him a wee bit of time needed to get the patch your way? On Friday, August 23, 2013, Johan Tibell wrote: > Great, if no one protests, I'll try to get out an initial RC for > people to test today or tomorrow. > > On Fri, Aug 23,

Re: Gearing up for a 1.18 release

2013-08-23 Thread Carter Schonwald
Just so you guy's know, Luite should have a patch ready for consideration very soon. (just spoke with him) I hope you consider it for the 1.18 release! On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does this include the API chang

Re: Setting up a build bot

2013-08-31 Thread Carter Schonwald
would it be possible to use cabal sandboxes to sandbox the cabal tests? On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Johan Tibell wrote: > > > I've been running a Jenkins build bot for cabal for quite a while: > > > > http://ci.johantibell.com/job/cabal/ > > > > It's not as

Re: hackage reverse dependencies

2013-10-14 Thread Carter Schonwald
So you're saying we need to add a db proper to hackage2 server, like SQLite or Postgres so as to make it more performant for interesting features? What's needed to do that? On Monday, October 14, 2013, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hey, thanks for taking an interest in this. There is kind of a > space-

hackage reverse dependencies

2013-10-14 Thread Carter Schonwald
So you're saying we need to add a db proper to hackage2 server, like SQLite or Postgres so as to make it more performant for interesting features? What's needed to do that? On Monday, October 14, 2013, Matthew Gruen wrote: > Hey, thanks for taking an interest in this. There is kind of a > space-

how to package cabalized binaries with assets for a package manager?

2013-10-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey All, the mac homebrew folks are trying to understand how they can distro haskell tools like Pandoc, and I"m out of my league in terms of the cabal / cabal-install sandbox fu needed for them to do it correctly, esp since Pandoc is one of those tools that needed a bunch of asset files installed,

Re: how to package cabalized binaries with assets for a package manager?

2013-10-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
eg, do they need something like cabal-debian, customized to their packge tooling? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/cabal-debian On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey All, > the mac homebrew folks are trying to understand

hackage helpers!!

2014-01-04 Thread Carter Schonwald
hey all, isn't there supposed to be an ACLs level for hackage helpers? (ie folks who can force docbuilders to rebuild docs for packager, edit pkg info stuff, etc?) Am I correct in thinking no ones in that group yet? (i know duncan asked for volunteers, but I don't think anyone's been put in that gr

Re: Broken documentation on Hackage.

2014-01-06 Thread Carter Schonwald
i'm sure patches are welcome to improve hackage infrastructure in these ways! :) On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Peter Selinger wrote: > Thank you, this worked like a charm! (Modulo using dist/doc/html > instead of dist/doc). Now all my packages have online documentation. > > One day I'd still l

Re: Broken documentation on Hackage.

2014-01-06 Thread Carter Schonwald
agreed, cabal-install should definitely get support for doing this correctly added in. (since this is going to become a common activity for maintainers who's libs need extra things installed that the doc builders lack) Any volunteers? On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: >

Re: Cabal File Pretty Printer

2014-02-26 Thread Carter Schonwald
I don't see why not. On Wednesday, February 26, 2014, Daniel Trstenjak < daniel.trsten...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > the current cabal file pretty printer creates output in the form: > >... >extra-source-files: README.md tests/inputFiles/original.cabal >test

cabal doesn't explore the none manual flags very well

2014-03-12 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey all, i'm repeatedly seeing many examples where a Manual : False flag is used to encode an "OR" in the cabal configuration, and where cabal "gives up" on finding the "right" build plan i know it can find if it has to flip the flag in a dependency its building... Is this a known issue? how can i

Re: GSoC - request for mentor

2014-03-28 Thread Carter Schonwald
I believe duncan coutts is going to wind up being the mentor if he has time, he's currently moving into his new apt this week, so I suspect you'll hear from him next week :) try emailing him directly, and or ping edwardk on #haskell-gsoc on freenode for help with mentor matching. I seem to be ass

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Please test: Cabal/cabal-install 1.20 RC2

2014-04-17 Thread Carter Schonwald
I'm trying to use the new haddock flags haddock -- keep-temp-files: False -- hoogle: False -- html: False -- html-location: -- executables: False -- tests: False -- benchmarks: False -- all: -- internal: False internal: True -- css: -- hyperlink-source: False hyperlink-so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Please test: Cabal/cabal-install 1.20 RC2

2014-04-17 Thread Carter Schonwald
also bizzarely, the haddocks for cabal 1.20 aren't showing up in my haddocks index or anywhere! On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Carter Schonwald < carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use the new haddock flags > > haddock > -- keep-temp-files

Re: Cabal problem

2014-05-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
likewise, make sure you have a 1.20 style cabal-install (~/.cabal/config should have fields like haddock hyper-link-source: etc) On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Erik Hesselink wrote: > Could it be this problem? > https://plus.google.com/115504368969270249241/posts/19fyYuT5C1i > > Regards, >

add an x86_64 linux build for cabal-install on the binaries site?

2014-09-22 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey All, http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html current lacks an x86_64 linux build, and while most linux distros DO provide a relatively recent cabal-install, might be good to make that available, it is one of the most widely used platforms for haskell! (also the 32bit linux build can't really

Re: HEADS UP: Running cabal install with the latest GHC

2014-09-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
Currently released cabal-install on hackage doesn't know how to do linkery for ghc head afaik, but I could be wrong On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Reid Barton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Edward Z. Yang wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> SPJ pointed out to me today that if you try to run

Re: Linker change in GHC 7.8 leads to widespread issues

2014-12-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
whats an example of such a package? On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > Hi folks, > > It seems that something somewhere in linker-land changed in GHC 7.8 such > that packages that include C components now need to be built with > position-independent code on some platforms.

Re: Looking for a new release manager for cabal

2015-02-26 Thread Carter Schonwald
I'm the wrong person to be release manager, but i'm happy to assist/help whomever steps forward to take over this (important) responsiblity On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Johan Tibell wrote: > (bcc: haskell-cafe) > > Hi, > > After about 3 years of cabal releases I'm looking for someone else to

Re: [patch] lincenses warning

2015-03-06 Thread Carter Schonwald
i'm very uncomfortable with the "warn on other-license" change. I think theres lots of valid reasons that someone may be using an amended license (eg BSD / MIT plus an explicit patent license grant) that strictly more open/free than any standard OSS license on the planet. Edward Kmett raise the va

Re: [patch] lincenses warning

2015-03-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
there will never be an expressive enough licenses datatype. Law is complicated and fluid and changing. Period. On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 12:50:19AM -0500, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > i'm very uncomfortable with the "wa

Re: [patch] lincenses warning

2015-03-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
sure, my point is that there no universe where we wont HAVE to have an "otherlicense" option (ie, we MUST always have that escape hatch) likewise, i dont understand the dual license point. Could you explain a bit more? At the end of the day, auditing the licensing/intellectual property status of

Re: Taking a step back

2015-10-20 Thread Carter Schonwald
I look forward to seeing yah around at events, as always! On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, Johan Tibell wrote: > Friends, > > I'm taking a step back from day-to-day library work. > > There are two main reasons I use Haskell: on one hand I find writing > Haskell educational and fun. On the other I h

Cabal build vs cabal new-build output differences?

2016-05-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hello all! I upgraded my cabal-install from a dev snapshot of 1.24 to the release (currently using ghc 8.0 rc4) One change I'm trying to track down is that my standard editor tooling (sublime Haskell ) now hangs when there's non empty output in stderr (, which it would typically parse and present

Re: Cabal build vs cabal new-build output differences?

2016-05-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
for those who are curious, https://github.com/SublimeHaskell/SublimeHaskell/issues/265 is the issue downstream :) On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > Hello all! > I upgraded my cabal-install from a dev snapshot of 1.24 to the release > (currently using ghc 8.0 rc4

Re: Wanted: cabal-install 1.24.0.0 binary for OS X

2016-05-07 Thread Carter Schonwald
I've several builds if any are needed On Thursday, May 5, 2016, Gershom B wrote: > I've emailed Mikhail with a binary. Assuming it works, then nobody > else should need to :-) > > Cheers, > Gerhsom > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov > > wrote: > > Hi *, > > > > I've uploaded

Documentation true flag ignored on caba install l 2.0 branch

2017-07-28 Thread Carter Schonwald
This looks like the last engineering issue for 2.0 release. Is there any way to help out? I've patched my local build to just have the flag set to true by default in the source code ... but I sense we don't want that ;) ___ cabal-devel mailing list caba

Re: Installation failed

2019-05-30 Thread Carter Schonwald
hey simon, on gmail your email seems to be marked as spam, i'm not sure if its the mailing list side or your email account ... fyi On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:57 AM Simon Peyton Jones wrote: > Dear Cabal developers > > More woe: > > simonpj@MSRC-3645512:~$ cabal install lhs2tex > > Resolving depen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal 3.8 pre-released!

2022-06-03 Thread Carter Schonwald
This looks great! Is the solver being factored out as its own package a new architecture change ? On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 5:27 AM Mikolaj Konarski wrote: > Hi Henning, > > > What about an upload as package candidate at Hackage? > > Here you go (but note that package candidates are transient > so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal 3.8 pre-released!

2022-06-05 Thread Carter Schonwald
doing those two pieces is *amazing* and jailbreaks a lot of amazing tooling/experiments being possible in userspace! props to all who were involved On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 2:56 PM Mikolaj Konarski wrote: > > This looks great! > > Thank you. :O) > > > Is the solver being factored out as its own pa