Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can cabal be turned into a package manager?

2012-12-16 Thread Ivan Perez
On 12 December 2012 18:16, Bardur Arantsson s...@scientician.net wrote: On 12/12/2012 06:01 PM, Janek S. wrote: Well, one big issue is that Linux distribution packagers have control of the entire stack. A (hypothetical) Haskell package manager wouldn't. In Gentoo, there are many package

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can cabal be turned into a package manager?

2012-12-16 Thread Ivan Perez
Well, one advantage of cabal over nix is that cabal works on windows. I haven't tried to install nix on windows, but: Portability. Nix should run on most Unix systems, including Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Has anyone tried it? Cheers, Ivan On 12 December 2012 18:55, Ertugrul Söylemez

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can cabal be turned into a package manager?

2012-12-16 Thread Ivan Perez
Btw, one more great pearl of Gentoo's package manager: predependencies and postdependencies. These are packages (and/or programs) that must be installed in the system prior to the package being installed, and after the package is installed, respectively. Most packages have almost the same

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Haskell bindings for the igraph C library

2012-12-16 Thread Nils Schweinsberg
Hi Haskellers, dear igraph community, I am pleased to announce the release of our (inofficial) Haskell bindings to the igraph C library. igraph is a powerfull library for creating and manipulating directed, undirected and weighted graphs. Our package offers a complete coverage of all

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANN: Haskell bindings for the igraph C library

2012-12-16 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Nils Schweinsberg m...@nils.cc wrote: Hi Haskellers, dear igraph community, I am pleased to announce the release of our (inofficial) Haskell bindings to the igraph C library. igraph is a powerfull library for creating and manipulating directed, undirected and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] edge: compile testing

2012-12-16 Thread John Lato
From: Christopher Howard christopher.how...@frigidcode.com On 12/14/2012 07:05 PM, Clark Gaebel wrote: Unacceptable argument type in foreign declaration Thanks for giving it a try. Could you send off a bug report to the OpenAL Haskell module maintainer? sven.pa...@aedion.de (I might

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: JMacro 0.6 and JMacro-RPC, featuring cross-platform json-rpc, easy AJAX applications, evented reactive panels and more

2012-12-16 Thread Gershom Bazerman
jmacro: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro jmacro-rpc: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro-rpc jmacro-rpc-snap: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro-rpc-snap jmacro-rpc-happstack: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/jmacro-rpc-happstack I'm happy to announce the release of