Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-25 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
"Claus Reinke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > PS. I never was quite sure why Haskell systems need an installer > on Windows? There used to be Haskell libraries for accessing > the registry, so filetype-associations and Start menu entries > could be done optionally, by a little se

RE: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-25 Thread Simon Marlow
On 25 June 2004 10:26, Claus Reinke wrote: >>> [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so >>> windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?] >> PS Also you could just build GHC yourself! It's not hard these days. > > I don't doubt that in principle, and I'm happy to

Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-25 Thread Claus Reinke
>| [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so >| windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?] >PS Also you could just build GHC yourself! It's not hard these days. I don't doubt that in principle, and I'm happy to hear it (I'm sure a lot of work has gone into maki

RE: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so | windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?] PS Also you could just build GHC yourself! It's not hard these days. Simon ___ Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-25 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| [has there been any progress on the idea of having weekly or so | windows snapshots of CVS GHC generated automatically?] On Linux, as you know, there's a nightly snapshot. To get Windows snapshots we need an automated way to build Windows .msi installers. We don't have one at the moment, but

Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-24 Thread Ralf Laemmel
Claus Reinke wrote: For context: I wanted to show people in the haskell tools thread - how easy it is these days to write a Haskell program transformation for instrumenting source code with asserts, e.g. to get location info for heads of empty lists :-) Yes, it is easy! - why these lovely

Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-24 Thread Claus Reinke
Hi Ralf, > the tuple instances did not make it into GHC 6.2 because of CVS > branching policy. GHC CVS HEAD compiles the example. > And yes, SPJ approved recently that Language.Haskell.Syntax should > derive Data and Typeable. okay, thanks (seems there's always a reason to look forward to the n

Re: Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-23 Thread Ralf Laemmel
Hi Claus, the tuple instances did not make it into GHC 6.2 because of CVS branching policy. GHC CVS HEAD compiles the example. And yes, SPJ approved recently that Language.Haskell.Syntax should derive Data and Typeable. But, I can't access cvs.haskell.org. Already for a while, it asks for my pass

Data instances in ghc 6.2.1?

2004-06-23 Thread Claus Reinke
Shouldn't there be more instances of Data and friends? I thought that tuples beyond size 2 were mentioned here before ghc 6.2, but this silly example doesn't work because of missing Data instance (it does work with d instead of d3): import Data.Generics -- file = "Tst.hs" d = (["hi","head"],(