Re: [GHC] #2992: GHCi Memory Leak in Windows Vista

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2992: GHCi Memory Leak in Windows Vista -+-- Reporter: Andir| Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi |Version:

[GHC] #2993: Precedence errors are reported for undefined operators

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2993: Precedence errors are reported for undefined operators -+-- Reporter: Olathe| Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal

[GHC] #2994: give better error messages for instance declarations with the wrong number of parameters

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2994: give better error messages for instance declarations with the wrong number of parameters -+-- Reporter: rwbarton | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new

Re: [GHC] #2993: Precedence errors are reported for undefined operators

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2993: Precedence errors are reported for undefined operators --+- Reporter: Olathe| Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #2819: Bad example code in documentation of Control.Exception.catch

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2819: Bad example code in documentation of Control.Exception.catch -+-- Reporter: mafo |Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority:

Re: [GHC] #2986: :info printing instances often isn't wanted

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2986: :info printing instances often isn't wanted -+-- Reporter: Remi |Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal|

Re: [GHC] #2655: Control.Exception's Haddock document drop instruction about Extensible Exceptions

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2655: Control.Exception's Haddock document drop instruction about Extensible Exceptions -+-- Reporter: shelarcy |Owner: igloo Type: bug | Status: closed

Re: [GHC] #2692: ghc-6.10.0.20081007 seg faults on Sparc

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2692: ghc-6.10.0.20081007 seg faults on Sparc -+-- Reporter: maeder|Owner: benl Type: bug | Status: assigned Priority: normal|Milestone: 6.10.2 Component:

Re: [GHC] #2960: Add instance Data.Traversable for Data.IntMap

2009-01-31 Thread GHC
#2960: Add instance Data.Traversable for Data.IntMap --+- Reporter: Deewiant |Owner: Type: proposal | Status: closed Priority: normal

Segmentation fault trying to build ghc 6.10.1 using macports, Mac OS X 10.5, PPC

2009-01-31 Thread David Menendez
I'm trying to upgrade GHC to 6.10.1 using macports on a PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.5.5. From what I can tell, I'm getting a segmentation fault from cabal-bin. This is possibly related to http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15142 and http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2380. cd

[Haskell] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 103 - January 31, 2009

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
--- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090131 Issue 103 - January 31, 2009 --- Welcome to issue 103 of HWN, a newsletter covering

[Haskell] Jane Street Summer Project 2009

2009-01-31 Thread yminsky
I'm pleased to announce the Jane Street Summer Project for 2009. The goal of the JSSP is to make functional programming languages into better practical tools for programming in the real world. To do that, we will fund students over the summer to work on open-source projects which aim at

[Haskell] HOC

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas Davie
I noticed recently that HOC has moved over to google code, and seems a little more active than it was before. Is there a mailing list where I can talk to other users and get myself kick started, or is it a case of just using the standard Haskell ones? Bob

[Haskell] ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features, including: * support for arbitrary straight and curved paths * more

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Achim Schneider
Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: In the process, I realized more clearly that the *very goal* of making a purely functional wrapper around an imperative library leads to muddled thinking. It's easy to hide the IO without really eliminating it from the semantics, especially if the goal is

Re: Re[Haskell-cafe] cursive referencing

2009-01-31 Thread Ryan Ingram
1) yes, but that's sumAA's fault, not the data structure; sumAA isn't tail recursive so it has to build a much bigger stack: x + (y + (z + (...))) whereas it could run in constant space if it did this instead: (...((x + y) + z) + ...) Usually this transformation is done by passing an

Re: [Haskell-cafe] what does atomically# mean?

2009-01-31 Thread Ryan Ingram
That code is in ghc root/rts/STM.c -- ryan 2009/1/30 Daryoush Mehrtash dmehrt...@gmail.com: I like to look at the code where the runtime detects a TVar, inside an atomic block, has been changed by another thread and hence it aborts the atomic operation. Any suggestion as to where I would

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
When I said Cairo felt rather slow, I was comparing it again fully hardware accelerated solutions. With Cairo I am unable to perform full smooth screen redraws of even just a single solid rectangle, and when you are making ZUI (zoomable user interfaces), full screen redraws are not uncommon.

[Haskell-cafe] Complex C99 type in Foreign

2009-01-31 Thread Maurí­cio
Hi, Are there plans to include C99 'complex' type in Foreign, maybe as CFloatComplex, CDoubleComplex and CLongDoubleComplex? This seems an easy addition to the standard and would allow binding of a few interesting libraries, like GSL. Best, Maurício

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Hi Conal, Do you have any links to this interesting work of Jefferson Heard? Blogs or something? I failed to Google it, I mainly found his OpenGL TrueType bindings on Hackage and his beautiful http://bluheron.europa.renci.org/docs/BeautifulCode.pdf Regarding semantics, modern GPUs are able to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HDBC v2.0 now available

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:01, John Goerzen jgoer...@complete.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:51:54AM +0100, Krzysztof Skrz??tnicki wrote: The following change in .cabal file may solve the problems:--- flag base4 description: Choose base-4 if possible default: True library

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 103 - January 31, 2009

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
--- Haskell Weekly News http://sequence.complete.org/hwn/20090131 Issue 103 - January 31, 2009 --- Welcome to issue 103 of HWN, a newsletter covering

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HDBC v2.0 now available

2009-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
Niklas Broberg wrote: Thanks for the hint for folks. Why would cabal-install select a different base than running Setup manually? Someone thought it was a good idea to make base-3 the preferred selection for cabal-install, to make the transition from base-3 to base-4 as smooth as

[Haskell-cafe] Buttons and Clicks - State Monad

2009-01-31 Thread guenni68
Hi, in this piece here http://moonpatio.com/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=1083#a1083 I'm trying to create a button that, every time when clicked, increases a counter by one and does a putStrLn of the counters current value. I'm trying to write this without any use of IORef but merely using the

[Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread Gregg Reynolds
Hi, I think I've finally figured out what a monad is, but there's one thing I haven't seen addressed in category theory stuff I've found online. That is the relation between type constructors and data constructors. As I understand it, a type constructor Tcon a is basically the object component

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HDBC v2.0 now available

2009-01-31 Thread Valentyn Kamyshenko
Thank you John, it worked like a charm :) -- Valentyn. On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:30 AM, John Goerzen wrote: Niklas Broberg wrote: Thanks for the hint for folks. Why would cabal-install select a different base than running Setup manually? Someone thought it was a good idea to make base-3 the

[Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Praki Prakash
I am trying to install Takusen 0.8.3 with ghc 6.10.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (same issue on Win XP as well). I get the following complaint from cabal. Module `Distribution.PackageDescription' does not export `writeHookedBuildInfo' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: Takusen-0.8.3

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi Praki, it just so happens that I also most recently had the same problem. Bottom line from the maintainers is that we have to be patient until they are ready for the next release. Günther Am 31.01.2009, 19:25 Uhr, schrieb Praki Prakash praki.prak...@gmail.com: I am trying to install

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buttons and Clicks - State Monad

2009-01-31 Thread Cale Gibbard
You might be misunderstanding the purpose of the State Int monad somewhat. A computation of type State Int a is internally represented by a function of type Int - (Int, a). When you call runState, you effectively apply this pure function to an initial state, and get a final state and result. You

Re: [Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread Ben Moseley
You can view a polymorphic unary type constructor of type :: a - T as a polymorphic function. In general, polymorphic functions correspond roughly to natural transformations (in this case from the identity functor to T). --Ben On 31 Jan 2009, at 17:00, Gregg Reynolds wrote: Hi, I think

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Buttons and Clicks - State Monad

2009-01-31 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi Cale, thanks for the explanation. From my futile attempts I *almost* gathered as much. I guess I was getting confused with documentation saying things like MonadState put replaces the state inside the monad. that this would refer to some sort of update-in-place. So bottom-line then

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Buttons and Clicks - State Monad

2009-01-31 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
Note that, for wxHaskell, you should use Var instead of IORef, to be future proof. Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://functor.bamikanarie.com http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ -- On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:38:41 +0100, Cale Gibbard cgibb...@gmail.com wrote: You might be misunderstanding the purpose

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Reinke
When I said Cairo felt rather slow, I was comparing it again fully hardware accelerated solutions. .. IMO the future is fully hardware accelerated rendering on the GPU, like OpenVG. It will take a while before it is common to see glyphs being rendered on the GPU, but I'm sure this is all doable.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 13:18 +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote: When I said Cairo felt rather slow, I was comparing it again fully hardware accelerated solutions. With Cairo I am unable to perform full smooth screen redraws of even just a single solid rectangle, and when you are making ZUI

[Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Coppin
I'm trying to write a simple program that involves UDP. I was hoping something like this would work: module Main where import Network.Socket main = withSocketsDo main2 main2 = do s - socket AF_INET Datagram defaultProtocol putStrLn Waiting... x - recv s 100 putStrLn x Unfortunately,

[Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Coppin
In celebration of Hackage reachin over 1,000 unique packages, I decided that I would re-visit the problem of attempting to build them on Windows. I began by removing all existing Haskellness from my PC. I now have a vanilla Windows XP (32-bit) system with Service Pack 3. So, let's see what we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
praki.prakash: I am trying to install Takusen 0.8.3 with ghc 6.10.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (same issue on Win XP as well). I get the following complaint from cabal. Module `Distribution.PackageDescription' does not export `writeHookedBuildInfo' cabal: Error: some packages failed to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: In celebration of Hackage reachin over 1,000 unique packages, I decided that I would re-visit the problem of attempting to build them on Windows. Ah yes, I already have the tarball for stream-fusion-0.1.1, but I see that the latest release is 0.1.2.1. (Unfortunately, there

Re: [Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Ben Moseley ben_mose...@mac.com wrote: You can view a polymorphic unary type constructor of type :: a - T as a polymorphic function. Shouldn't that be * :: a - T a ? In general, polymorphic functions correspond roughly to natural transformations (in this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread David Menendez
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Gregg Reynolds d...@mobileink.com wrote: I think I've finally figured out what a monad is, but there's one thing I haven't seen addressed in category theory stuff I've found online. That is the relation between type constructors and data constructors. What

Re: [Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread Stephan Friedrichs
Andrew Coppin wrote: I'm trying to write a simple program that involves UDP. I was hoping something like this would work: [...] How about using bindSocket? At least that's the main difference between your code snippet and our (UDP-using) barracuda project :) main2 = do s - socket

Re: [Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
The network library is no more than an FFI library to a Berkeley socket interface and as such it implicitly expects you to know sockets already (eg. from programming in C). One advantage here is reading man pages actually helps (unlike with most Haskell coding) and you can also make equivalent C

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
the true way to install all of hackage is: cabal install $(all my packages) where cabal install solves it all. not really :) e.g. my output on a Windows Vista system with GHC 6.10.1 cabal install sdl Resolving dependencies... Downloading SDL-0.5.4... [1 of 1] Compiling Main

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
bugfact: the true way to install all of hackage is: cabal install $(all my packages) where cabal install solves it all. not really :) e.g. my output on a Windows Vista system with GHC 6.10.1 cabal install sdl Resolving dependencies... Downloading

Re: [Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread John Van Enk
Try something like this: module Main where import Network.Socket main = withSocketsDo $ do -- Make a UDP socket s - socket AF_INET Datagram defaultProtocol -- We want to listen on all interfaces (0.0.0.0) bindAddr - inet_addr 0.0.0.0 -- Bind to 0.0.0.0:3 bindSocket

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and OSX. I guess I would have to try on a system that supports XRender to compare. Unfortunately, the target audience of our application are mostly windows and OSX users, so although it would be great that Cairo performs fast on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Coppin
Thomas DuBuisson wrote: The network library is no more than an FFI library to a Berkeley socket interface and as such it implicitly expects you to know sockets already (eg. from programming in C). One advantage here is reading man pages actually helps (unlike with most Haskell coding) and you

[Haskell-cafe] Good books on advanced topics

2009-01-31 Thread Mark Spezzano
Hi, Is there a good book on some of the more advanced or esoteric Haskell topics, like monads, and morphisms, category theory etc. Cheers, Mark No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1910 - Release Date: 22/01/2009

Re: [Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread wren ng thornton
Gregg Reynolds wrote: Hi, I think I've finally figured out what a monad is, but there's one thing I haven't seen addressed in category theory stuff I've found online. That is the relation between type constructors and data constructors. As I understand it, a type constructor Tcon a is

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features, including: * support for arbitrary straight and curved paths * more

Re: [Haskell-cafe] type and data constructors in CT

2009-01-31 Thread Derek Elkins
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 11:00 -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote: Hi, I think I've finally figured out what a monad is, but there's one thing I haven't seen addressed in category theory stuff I've found online. That is the relation between type constructors and data constructors. The typical

[Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
this is the error message i get: ezekiel-smithburgs-macbook-pro-15% runhaskell Setup.* build Preprocessing library testpack-1.0.0... Building testpack-1.0.0... [1 of 3] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Instances ( src/Test/QuickCheck/Instances.hs, dist/build/Test/QuickCheck/Instances.o ) [2 of 3]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Praki Prakash
Don, Thanks for the hint. I removed Setup.hs and tried cabal build. I get an error that build type is custom and Setup.lhs is missing. What is the magical incantation needed to do the default build? Thanks Praki On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
build-type: Simple praki.prakash: Don, Thanks for the hint. I removed Setup.hs and tried cabal build. I get an error that build type is custom and Setup.lhs is missing. What is the magical incantation needed to do the default build? Thanks Praki On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Don

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
This error is due to usage of old base package in version 3.In .cabal file add dependency on base-4, in form base = 4. All best Christopher Skrzętnicki 2009/2/1 Ezekiel Smithburg tehgeekmeis...@gmail.com this is the error message i get: ezekiel-smithburgs-macbook-pro-15% runhaskell Setup.*

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Braden Shepherdson
Brent Yorgey wrote: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features, including: * support for arbitrary straight and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
oops, forgot to reply to all. haven't used a mailing list in a while. =P this did not solve my problem. also, dons suggested using runhaskell Setup.hs --constraint='base4', which worked for him apparently. neither suggestion has changed my error message at all, and I've cleaned and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:23:29PM -0500, Braden Shepherdson wrote: Brent Yorgey wrote: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, Would this make a handy plugin for gitit? I'm currently putting diagrams together in xfig and saving them to my gitit tree while

Re: [Haskell-cafe] UDP

2009-01-31 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Thomas DuBuisson wrote: The network library is no more than an FFI library to a Berkeley socket interface and as such it implicitly expects you to know sockets already (eg. from programming in C). One advantage

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Claus Reinke
I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and OSX. I guess I would have to try on a system that supports XRender to compare. Unfortunately, the target audience of our application are mostly windows and OSX users, so although it would be great that Cairo performs fast

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
solution to that problem: deleted the lines from If flag(splitBase) on and changed base in Build-Depends to base = 4. now i have a new problem, however: ezekiel-smithburgs-macbook-pro-15% runhaskell Setup.hs build Preprocessing library testpack-1.0.0... Building testpack-1.0.0...

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Achim Schneider
Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and OSX. I guess I would have to try on a system that supports XRender to compare. Unfortunately, the target audience of our application are mostly windows and OSX users, so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
-- From: Don Stewart d...@galois.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:35 PM To: Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few! andrewcoppin: In

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Achim Schneider
Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote: though software fallbacks for missing hardware support would seem essential You mean having widget renderers that don't use any of those frills, don't you? Don't underestimate the breath of the target audience that wants to run things on their

Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

2009-01-31 Thread Don Stewart
sebastian.sylvan: -- From: Don Stewart d...@galois.com Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:35 PM To: Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] 1,000 packages, so let's build a few!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Why binding to existing widget toolkits doesn't make any sense

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Cool. But the folks in the GTK2HS mailing list told me Glitz never really took of :-( I hope they are wrong :) On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Claus Reinke claus.rei...@talk21.com wrote: I should have mentioned that my tests have been done only on Windows and OSX. I guess I would have to

[Haskell-cafe] hslogger bugs or features?

2009-01-31 Thread Marc Weber
Following the advice on the hslogger wiki (http://software.complete.org/software/wiki/hslogger) I'm posting my thoughts about hslogger here: What is wired? This piece of code (src/System/Log/Logger.hs): parentHandlers name = let pname = (head . drop 1 . reverse .

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
2009/2/1 Ezekiel Smithburg tehgeekmeis...@gmail.com solution to that problem: deleted the lines from If flag(splitBase) on and changed base in Build-Depends to base = 4. Well, this is exactly what I suggested in the first place: This error is due to usage of old base package in version 3.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
oddly, when i do that, i'm back to the original error message. and sorry, i didn't understand what you meant, apparently. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki gte...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/2/1 Ezekiel Smithburg tehgeekmeis...@gmail.com solution to that problem: deleted the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
testpack builds fine for me. In the original .cabal file there are following lines: If flag(splitBase) Build-Depends: base = 3, containers, random Else Build-Depends: base 3 Now that I think about it you didn't actually said what is your GHC version. Knowing that you can replace lines

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
Trying to follow Ezekiel's steps I bumped into this: D:\biblioteki\testpack-1.0.0cabal configure Configuring testpack-1.0.0... D:\biblioteki\testpack-1.0.0cabal build Preprocessing library testpack-1.0.0... Building testpack-1.0.0... [1 of 3] Compiling Test.QuickCheck.Instances (

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 06:23:29PM -0500, Braden Shepherdson wrote: Brent Yorgey wrote: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, Would this make a handy plugin for gitit? I'm currently

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
tried that version, it gets rid of that error message but now i have this one: ezekiel-smithburgs-macbook-pro-15% cabal --flag=split-base configure -p Configuring testpack-1.0.0... ezekiel-smithburgs-macbook-pro-15% cabal build Preprocessing library testpack-1.0.0... Building testpack-1.0.0... [1

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Henning Thielemann
Brent Yorgey schrieb: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features, including: * support for arbitrary straight

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
You need to reinstall random package with profiling libraries enabled. This is simple: cabal install random --reinstall --enable-library-profiling I think all libraries that ships with GHC should have profiling libraries build too, but for some reason it is not so. All best Christopher

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread Ezekiel Smithburg
that solved my problem entirely. i had attempted to reinstall using profiling, but not using --reinstall, and hence it didn't work right. thanks for the help! On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Krzysztof Skrzętnicki gte...@gmail.comwrote: You need to reinstall random package with profiling

[Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.11 missing time package?

2009-01-31 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
Hi folks, I'm getting ready to release a piece of software. Unfortunately due to a bug in GHC 6.10 on Windows it does not handle Ctrl+C properly. Since the bug has been fixed (thank you Simon Marlow), I figured I'd download a 6.11 build (I grabbed the 2009-01-29 version). Unfortunately, my

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 03:43:35AM +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: Brent Yorgey schrieb: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] can't build testpack

2009-01-31 Thread John Goerzen
Ezekiel Smithburg wrote: this is the error message i get: Hi everyone, Thanks for the report. I just realized that I inadvertantly released testpack-1.0.0 without my GIT patch[1] that fixed GHC 6.10 compatibility. testpack 1.0.2 is out there now with that fix. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.11 missing time package?

2009-01-31 Thread Antoine Latter
2009/1/31 Lyle Kopnicky li...@qseep.net: Hi folks, I'm getting ready to release a piece of software. Unfortunately due to a bug in GHC 6.10 on Windows it does not handle Ctrl+C properly. Since the bug has been fixed (thank you Simon Marlow), I figured I'd download a 6.11 build (I grabbed the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: diagrams 0.2

2009-01-31 Thread John MacFarlane
+++ Braden Shepherdson [Jan 31 09 18:23 ]: Brent Yorgey wrote: I am very pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the diagrams package, an embedded domain-specific language for creating simple graphics in a compositional style. This release includes a number of significant new features,