GHC 6.4.1 on Solaris x86

2005-11-13 Thread Ben Horsfall
Is there a binary package for GHC 6.4.1 on Solaris x86 (Sun OS 5.9)? Building from source fails thus: ../../ghc/compiler/ghc-inplace -optc-O -optc-Wall -optc-W -optc-Wstrict-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-prototypes -optc-Wmissing-declarations -optc-Winline -optc-Waggregate-return

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Samstag, 12. November 2005 10:04 schrieb Gour: [...] I'd like that we keep the present css style of the site (color theme) which I find very nice and appealing, The font size is way too small! [...] iii) forum pro)- provides ability to have sticky posts for

Re: [Haskell] [ANNOUNCE] yhc - York Haskell Compiler

2005-11-13 Thread Tom Shackell
David Frech wrote: I'm curious. Can you be more specific about what you thought wanted/needed changing in nhc98's VM and/or compiler? Well there were a number of issues: - nhc98's existing VM had a very substantial bug because it was originally designed to use the top bit of an address to

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 20:08 schrieb John Velman: I agree with Gour. I found txt2tags as a result of a discussion on the GTK2HS list. It is simple to use, readable as is, or easily transformable to a variety of targets. Also, it is consistent with bird-track literate Haskell, so I

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 20:03 schrieb Gour: Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The advantage of newsgroups over mailing lists is that newsgroups are designed for discussions among several people and therefore newsgroup software supports this kind of usage very well while

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 23:26 schrieb Mark T.B. Carroll: Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Creighton Hogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Well, you don't have to be registered to post on it, which is actually rather nice. Hmmm, iirc, gmane.org wanted me to authorize in order to be able to

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Ketil Malde
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: The potential of newsgroup was also mentioned - creating of compl.lang.haskell, but I won't comment of it considering that the newsgroup cannot be one all solution, and, otoh, does not, imho, provide any substantial advantage over the other three forms (we already have

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Axel Simon
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:18 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 20:08 schrieb John Velman: I agree with Gour. I found txt2tags as a result of a discussion on the GTK2HS list. It is simple to use, readable as is, or easily transformable to a variety of targets.

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Panne
Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 15:51 schrieb Simon Marlow: [...] We already use DocBook XML, and I'm relatively pleased with it, except for the fact that it's far from easy to set up a working DocBook toolchain on your system unless your OS of choice is up to date and has a well-maintained set

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 20:28 schrieben Sie: On 13/11/05, Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 19:21 schrieb Gour: Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'd like that we keep the present css style of the site (color theme) which I find

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 20:29 schrieb Sven Panne: [...] As I'm guilty of kicking out the old SGML stuff and introducing DocBook XML, I'd like to add two remarks: * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain

Re: [Haskell] Haskell based web server?

2005-11-13 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: I've been reading the article Tackling the Awkward Squad by Simon Peyton Jones (and find it very readable and useful, BTW). I wonder if the HTTP/1.1 server referred to in this article is available on the web. I think you

Re: [Haskell] Haskell based web server?

2005-11-13 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Gregory Woodhouse wrote: am interested (among other things) in the possibilities of using Haskell to develop safety critical systems. I think it will be interesting for you that Galois, one of the top Haskell companies, makes money on safety critical

Re: [Haskell] Haskell based web server?

2005-11-13 Thread Doaitse Swierstra
On: http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/WebFunctions/ you may find some code that could get you started. It includes a small webserver based on Simon Marlow's design, Doaitse Swierstra On 2005 nov 13, at 21:29, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 01:10:03PM -0800, Gregory Woodhouse

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:11:46PM +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Which browser are you speaking about? I use Konqueror. I don't know about Konqueror, but in Firefox you can quickly increase or decrease the font size pressing Ctrl with + or -. This is a local per-window, per-tab setting, so it

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Cale Gibbard
I'd like that we keep the present css style of the site (color theme) which I find very nice and appealing, The font size is way too small! Well, in every browser I know (on Linux), you can setup your preferred sitze for minimum and/or medium font size. The

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (snip) But do these newsservers support the Gmane mailinglist newsgroups? I thought that you have to use the newsserver of Gmane in order to access them. Oh, I have no idea about Gmane things or other things that require particular news-servers

Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Mark T.B. Carroll
Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But do these newsservers support the Gmane mailinglist newsgroups? I thought that you have to use the newsserver of Gmane in order to access them. Okay, I checked: none of the institutional servers I have access to seem to carry them, despite

[Haskell] Re: Making the haskell.org website more open with a wiki? was Re: Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Ashley Yakeley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shae Matijs Erisson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only worry with the current wiki is the licensing. There's no overall license required for content contributed, so example code can't be directly used in OSS or commercial projects. I'd like to freeze the wiki at

[Haskell] Evaluation in hugs X ghc(i)

2005-11-13 Thread Dusan Kolar
Hello all, My question may appear to be absolutely FAQ, in the end. Sorry for that if it's true. I've run some algorithms using ghc, ghci and hugs during the weekend. Some of them required wast amount of memory. From the results obtained, it seems like hugs is more eager on memory consumption

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In addition, one could argue that since newsgroups were specifically designed for discussions, newsgroup software allows proper mangagement of threads but, well, current e-mail programs might do this in similar quality. From the most plain mailers

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The most important question is: Does txt2tags use logical markup? A kind of, e.g. = title = == subtitle == === subsub...=== if this is logical ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Registered Linux User | #278493 GPG Public Key | 8C44EDCD

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The font size is much smaller than the font size of other webpages. So if I would change the default font size to give good results with the Haskell website, all other websites would have their text in very large letters. Well, haskell.org has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Panne
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:05 schrieb Gour: Wolfgang Jeltsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] The question is if HTML is sufficient. In addition, HTML is at some points not well thought-out. True, but considering the present situation, it is all what is required. Well, that's a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Gour
Sven Panne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * DocBook XML can be transformed into a very rich collection of output formats: XHTML, HTML Help, DVI, PS, PDF, FO, plain text, etc. etc. txt2tags has the following backends: HTML, XHTML, SGML, LaTeX, Lout, man, Magic Point, Moin Moin, Page Maker 6.0

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Making Haskell more open

2005-11-13 Thread Sven Panne
Am Sonntag, 13. November 2005 22:22 schrieb Gour: [...] Besides that, 'txt2tags-like technology' is already in use for some time - e.g AFT (http://www.maplefish.com/todd/aft.html) dating back in '99 and XMLmind XML Editor has plugin which supports (similar) markup called APT