Please help beta test no-reinstall Cabal (was: Cabal and simultaneous installations of the same package)

2015-08-29 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Good news, everyone! ...you may be interested to know this has finally come to fruition (just in time for HIW): http://blog.ezyang.com/2015/08/help-us-beta-test-no-reinstall-cabal/ Cheers, hvr On 2015-03-23 at 09:45:48 +0100, Simon Peyton Jones wrote: Dear Cabal developers You'll

Re: Planning for the 7.12 release

2015-08-29 Thread Richard Eisenberg
On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Ben Gamari b...@well-typed.com wrote: I half-jokingly suggested that 8.0 should only come with Phase 2 of Richard's Dependent Haskell work, but I'm willing to settle for merely kind equality. I think doing a major bump would be a great idea. Drat! I, too, was

Re: Planning for the 7.12 release

2015-08-29 Thread Bardur Arantsson
On 08/28/2015 07:33 PM, Ben Gamari wrote: Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com writes: Actually that’s a good idea. Simon From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Greg Weber Sent: 28 August 2015 16:43 To: Ben Gamari Cc: GHC developers Subject: Re: Planning

Re: Installing ghc-7.10.2 linux binary distro on SuSE

2015-08-29 Thread Kosyrev Serge
Levent Erkok erk...@gmail.com writes: Hello all, I've been having a lot of trouble installing the binary-distro's on a SuSE machine. Unfortunately, I don't have root privileges and thus my options are rather limited. The problem seem to boil down to the use of the function

Installing ghc-7.10.2 linux binary distro on SuSE

2015-08-29 Thread Levent Erkok
Hello all, I've been having a lot of trouble installing the binary-distro's on a SuSE machine. Unfortunately, I don't have root privileges and thus my options are rather limited. The problem seem to boil down to the use of the function pthread_setname_np. It appears the problem was noted before,

Documentation for GHC.IO.Exception

2015-08-29 Thread Phil Ruffwind
On Hackage, there seems to be no documentation for GHC.IO.Exception in base, but the package can in fact be imported so it's not exactly an internal package. directory and likely many other packages do use the GHC-specific error types like InappropriateType in exceptions, so it would be useful if

Re: Installing ghc-7.10.2 linux binary distro on SuSE

2015-08-29 Thread Levent Erkok
I really like the idea of nix. Alas, generating native binaries that can run on SuSE without being in the nix environment is a requirement that's hard to let go. (Everyone in my group would have to start using nix, a tall order.) Thanks for the advice however, it can indeed come handy for one-off

Re: ArrayArrays

2015-08-29 Thread Johan Tibell
I'd also be interested to chat at ICFP to see if I can use this for my HAMT implementation. On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds good to me. Right now I'm just hacking up composable accessors for typed slots in a fairly lens-like fashion, and treating