Re: [Haskell-cafe] Some thoughts on Type-Directed Name

2012-01-28 Thread Anthony Clayden
There is an effort underway to make Haskell's Records better. The discussion is ongoing on the ghc-users mail list, ... in the direction of making the most minimal changes possible to achieve some simple record name-spacing. Thanks, Greg Weber Thank you Greg, Yes I know, and I have been

Re: Records in Haskell

2012-01-28 Thread Anthony Clayden
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 PM, AntC anthony_clay...@clear.net.nz wrote: Ryan Newton rrnewton at gmail.com writes: I admit I'm a big fan of polymorphic extension. But I don't love it enough for it to impede progress! Records proposals for Haskell have repeatedly foundered

Fwd: [Gtk2hs-users] GHC 7.4+ rts_evalIO

2012-01-28 Thread Axel Simon
Dear ghc developers, there seems to be a change in the C functions of ghc. How do we fix this? Is there some guide as to what has changed? Thanks, Axel Begin forwarded message: From: Andriy Polishchuk andriy.s.polishc...@gmail.com Date: 27. Januar 2012 03:36:50 MEZ To:

Re: [Gtk2hs-users] GHC 7.4+ rts_evalIO

2012-01-28 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
Axel, See my recent email to gtk2hs-users, I already proposed a fix for this. 28.01.2012, в 17:36, Axel Simon axel.si...@in.tum.de написал(а): Dear ghc developers, there seems to be a change in the C functions of ghc. How do we fix this? Is there some guide as to what has changed?

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 08:57:35PM -0800, Evan Laforge wrote: Unfortunately ghci still segfaults for me most times (the previous release candidate did too). Anyone else seeing this? What should I do to troubleshoot? OS X 10.6.8, using GHC-7.4.0.20120126-x86_64.pkg Ah, sorry, I should have

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:10:26PM -0600, Austin Seipp wrote: Ian, can I ask what the procedure would be to check out the 7.4 branch of GHC and all the associated libraries to try this out? I'm not familiar with all the `sync-all`-fu, but I speculate it's what'll do it. :) See

Re: [Gtk2hs-users] GHC 7.4+ rts_evalIO

2012-01-28 Thread Axel Simon
Oh, ok, sorry, I didn't realize this was the same issue. Please ignore this email then. Axel On 28.01.2012, at 14:40, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: Axel, See my recent email to gtk2hs-users, I already proposed a fix for this. 28.01.2012, в 17:36, Axel Simon axel.si...@in.tum.de

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Sanket Agrawal
I installed it on my mac (OS X 10.7.2, XCode 4.1) without any issues (using bindist, not pkg). Is upgrading to XCode 4.2 ok from GHC perspective (more specifically, runtime performance of code compiled by GHC)? I have seen some discussion of Clang causing issues for GHC, but it was about compiling

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Sanket Agrawal sanket.agra...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I am asking is I want to try LLVM backend but GHC keeps complaining about missing llvm tools (opt, llc). I checked LLVM webpage but couldn't find information about how to determine what llvm tools are

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Sanket Agrawal
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Sanket Agrawal sanket.agra...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I am asking is I want to try LLVM backend but GHC keeps complaining about missing llvm tools (opt, llc). I checked LLVM

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:52:13AM -0500, Sanket Agrawal wrote: I installed it on my mac (OS X 10.7.2, XCode 4.1) without any issues (using bindist, not pkg). Is upgrading to XCode 4.2 ok from GHC perspective There is a problem with the LLVM gcc and GHC:

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:15:46PM +, Ian Lynagh wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/ The first candidate or the second? (for the date is Jan 27). Is ghc-7.4.0.20111219 the first candidate?

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Jan 28, 2012 11:14 AM, Sanket Agrawal sanket.agra...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, that is another possibility. I would like to keep it simple, and just upgrade to XCode 4.2, instead of installing Clang+LLVM binaries separately, if it is not an issue for GHC. Xcode 4.2 doesn't include full LLVM

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:32:31PM +0400, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:15:46PM +, Ian Lynagh wrote: We are pleased to announce the first release candidate for GHC 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.4.1-rc2/ The first candidate or the second?

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-28 Thread Austin Seipp
Ian, Thanks for pointing this out. I run XCode 4 (and haven't had the opportunity to upgrade.) Would it be reasonable to make a binary distribution for people like Evan and Me and hopefully have it put on the download page? I presume the people in our boat are actually pretty small in number