GHC error message on type mismatch

2013-11-07 Thread Daniel Trstenjak
Hello, I don't know if I'm the only one struggeling with this GHC error message on type mismatches or it's because I'm not a full time Haskeller, or because I'm not a native english speaker. Couldn't match type `A' with `B´ Expected type: B Actual type: A My problem is with

windows agiain

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Austin I'm crashing in the testsuite as below. On Windows with the new msys. Any ideas? How do I set my Windows terminal type? Simon python2 ../../../driver/runtests.py -e ghc_compiler_always_flags='-fforce-recomp -dcore-lint -dcmm-lint -dno-debug-output -no-user-package-db

Re: Possible bug related to stm and exceptions

2013-11-07 Thread Andreas Voellmy
Hi all, Thanks so much for everyone's responses! I finally found the problem, so I thought I'd follow up and share what happened... It turned out that the problem was not in the STM implementation, but rather in bad programming on my part. For some reason, I had a thread (thread #1) performing a

Re: Unicode quotes

2013-11-07 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2013-09-04 at 09:24:38 +0200, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote: GHCi of GHC 7.7 use Unicode quote marks instead of ASCII quote marks. Why do you guys decide this behavior change? I'm just curious. seems to be due to http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2507

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated; atomics branch is merged. The only further work I plan to do in the near term is add additional tests. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones simo...@microsoft.comwrote: Friends The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask

RE: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
I do need more than a patch, please, please. A wiki page explaining the design, as seen by the user (of the GHC API), the problems it solves, and the use-cases it enables, would be most helpful. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Thomas Schilling [mailto:nomin...@googlemail.com] |

Re: Windows validate failure

2013-11-07 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
On 2013-09-22 at 15:59:01 +0200, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: My latest Windows validate fell over as below, with some kind of Python failure (ie not just a failing test). It worked fine couple of days ago. Does anyone have any ideas of what might be going on? Seems to be caused by this:

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Austin Seipp
Thank you Ryan! I'll be getting my ARMv7 build machine back online today, hopefully. Jens Peterson reported he had a working ARMv7 build to me today from HEAD, which is good news. On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ryan Newton rrnew...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reminder. Wiki is updated;

Re: Cabal-1.18.1.1 released

2013-11-07 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Hello Johan, On 2013-10-16 at 01:00:17 +0200, Johan Tibell wrote: I've released Cabal-1.18.1.1, which requires the fixes needed for the GHC 7.8 release. Please update the submodule to point to the Cabal-v1.18.1.1 tag. Done:

GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Friends The 7.8 release is imminent. This email is to ask abou the status of your contributions. In each case could you update the wiki with the current state of play, and your intentions, including dates. That is, don't put your reply in email: it on the status page below; though by all

Re: GHC 7.8 release status

2013-11-07 Thread Ryan Newton
By the way, the parallel IO manager is also new in 7.8 right? I'm not sure but I think it may have something to do with the excessive system time bug I just filed: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8224 ___ ghc-devs mailing list

Re: GHC HEAD vs Hackage, panic-free edition

2013-11-07 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.comwrote: The issue with yesod-core was an issue from the underlying hamlet package. hamlet has some internal functions which are used by the TH-generated code it produces, and those internal functions were not previously