Re: FP track at DebConf14

2014-04-04 Thread Daniel Silverstone
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 00:58:48 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Well, when you put it that way, anything that can convince you to come to DebConf ... ;) If someone who knew more about XMonad's internals were to give a talk about it, I'd be more likely to turn up too :-) Could also be fun to take

Fw: Re: Mentoring a haskell port

2014-04-04 Thread Wookey
On Apr 3, 2014 4:45 PM, Wookey [2]woo...@wookware.org wrote: I'm involved as a Linaro Google summer of code (GSOC) admin as well as Debian GSOC mentor. (linaro is an arm linux/open source non-profit engineering organisation if you've never heard of it http://linaro.org/ who have been paying for

Re: Re: Mentoring a haskell port

2014-04-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Wookey, the great Colin Watson has already done a whole great job in this! https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2014/04/msg0.html I think you will find interesting his work, it is for 7.8 but I think with some backports can be done with ghc 7.6 too... Did you already saw the work?

Re: Fw: Re: Mentoring a haskell port

2014-04-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Dear Wookey, others have worked on ARM64 as well, most prominently Karel Gardas. He wrote about it at https://ghcarm.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/unregisterised-ghc-head-build-for-arm64-platform/ I believe he is an expert on both GHC and arm, so he will most likely be able to help you. Maybe he is

Re: Re: Mentoring a haskell port

2014-04-04 Thread Wookey
+++ Gianfranco Costamagna [2014-04-04 15:28 +0100]: Hi Wookey, the great Colin Watson has already done a whole great job in this! https://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2014/04/msg0.html I think you will find interesting his work, it is for 7.8 but I think with some

Re: Re: Mentoring a haskell port

2014-04-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
I wish to have access to a real hardware for helping Colin in this taks, but I cannot help you, maybe asking and syncing with him can help you both :D have a nice weekend to all, Gianfranco Il Venerdì 4 Aprile 2014 16:42, Wookey woo...@wookware.org ha scritto: +++ Gianfranco Costamagna

Re: GHC arm64 porting

2014-04-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:51:16AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 02.04.2014, 23:44 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 02:49:51PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Dienstag, den 01.04.2014, 13:16 +0100 schrieb Colin Watson: I've attached the

updates for libghc-gtk and friends

2014-04-04 Thread Sven Bartscher
Greetings everyone, I noticed that libghc-gtk and some of its dependencies haven't received any updates to newer upstream versions since a while. There is nice new stuff in the new versions (like gtk3 support) and I'm kind of waiting for that. So I want to ask if someone is already working on

Re: updates for libghc-gtk and friends

2014-04-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 04.04.2014, 21:45 +0200 schrieb Sven Bartscher: I noticed that libghc-gtk and some of its dependencies haven't received any updates to newer upstream versions since a while. There is nice new stuff in the new versions (like gtk3 support) and I'm kind of waiting for that.