Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: On 23/02/10 18:46, Christian Maeder wrote: Ross Paterson schrieb: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones It could

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/02/2010 10:07, Christian Maeder wrote: Simon Marlow schrieb: On 23/02/10 18:46, Christian Maeder wrote: Ross Paterson schrieb: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author:

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: Both Cabal and ghc-pkg explicitly use UTF-8 for handling .cabal and package configuration files, so if you end up with a Latin-1 file in your package database then something has gone wrong. If anyone can reproduce this problem then please submit a ticket. Indeed, I

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/02/2010 11:35, Christian Maeder wrote: Simon Marlow schrieb: Both Cabal and ghc-pkg explicitly use UTF-8 for handling .cabal and package configuration files, so if you end up with a Latin-1 file in your package database then something has gone wrong. If anyone can reproduce this problem

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Maeder
Simon Marlow schrieb: On 24/02/2010 11:35, Christian Maeder wrote: Simon Marlow schrieb: Both Cabal and ghc-pkg explicitly use UTF-8 for handling .cabal and package configuration files, so if you end up with a Latin-1 file in your package database then something has gone wrong. If anyone can

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/02/2010 12:28, Christian Maeder wrote: And you got that by just 'cabal install syb'? What version of cabal-install? (cabal --version) No, just by the Setup, configure, build, install procedure. ghc-pkg describe syb and ghc-pkg dump create UTF-8 output. Aha, I think I see where the

FW: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
...@haskell.orgmailto:librar...@haskell.org Subject: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell Hi all, I'm trying to get a program that uses the Data.Generics module to compile under the head version of GHC, but I am having trouble getting the syb package installed. I believe I am using

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread José Pedro Magalhães
14:32 To: GHC users Cc: cvs-...@haskell.org Subject: FW: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell Friends Can anyone help Kathleen out? She has a cabal-install issue. I think she's on a Mac. Many thanks Simon From: Kathleen Fisher

RE: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
, Alistair Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; GHC users; cvs-...@haskell.org Subject: Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell I'm guessing that is indeed the problem, though I cannot reproduce the error (but I'm using Cabal-1.8.0.2). Assuming this is the cause of the problem, what is the best

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Ross Paterson
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8. No, syb-0.1.0.3/syb.cabal is UTF-8-encoded

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ross Paterson r...@soi.city.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones It could well be

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Christian Maeder
Ross Paterson schrieb: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8. No,

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Antoine Latter
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Christian Maeder christian.mae...@dfki.de wrote: Ross Paterson schrieb: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author:                 Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton

Re: Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Marlow
On 23/02/10 18:46, Christian Maeder wrote: Ross Paterson schrieb: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones It could well be Latin-1