Re: [Haskell-cafe] Advertisement: the Haskell Stack Overflow Q A site

2011-05-03 Thread Jason Dagit
. It is also less prone to noise, for those suffering from cafe overload. I would also recommend SO. If you have trouble following along you can also use twitter to see when new Haskell questions are posted: http://twitter.com/#!/haskellstoverfl Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GLUT error while using Gloss

2011-05-02 Thread Jason Dagit
argument (character is not in the code page). A window with produced picture is showed for one second and then it crashes. This is fixed in the git repository for GLUT, but I didn't push the fix to hackage yet: https://github.com/haskell-opengl/GLUT/pull/1 Sorry for the inconvenience! Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-28 Thread Jason Dagit
having. The error code from the attempted GLFW install is not included in your abbreviated log. As I recommended before try this command: cabal install GLFW-0.4.2 That will attempt only the GLFW install which will mean less output to look through for the error message. Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-28 Thread Jason Dagit
9 (or was it 11?). Similarly, ExitFailure 127 means cabal couldn't find an executable it needed to run. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Python is lazier than Haskell

2011-04-28 Thread Jason Dusek
really do dynamic type errors, though. To be more like PHP, the -fphp flag should surely coerce y to a list, using read and show if possible and otherwise using unsafeCoerce. -- Jason Dusek ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary

Re: [Haskell-cafe] -- Extension for Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird, 2010, page 25 #Haskell

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
Do you have a question for the group or something you want to discuss? On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:50 PM, cas...@istar.ca wrote: -- Extension for Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird, -- 2010, page 25 #Haskell -- This version assumes 3 disjoint ordered sets represented as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
with just GLFW, eg., cabal install GLFW, then it should be easier to spot the error. Since you're on a mac, I would highly recommend getting the latest haskell platform. You're on 7.0.2 which has bug fixes that are relevant to build failures on OSX, as I understand it. Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does Cabal not choose the latest package?

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Emil Axelsson e...@chalmers.se wrote: Hello! I've had some of the usual problems with packages depending on multiple versions of another package. It seems the root of the hole problem was that I once attempted to run cabal install cabal-install This

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A small Darcs anomoly

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
to each other, which might be useful in some cases. How do you see how git branches are related to each other? You can use gitk to see how the histories have interacted. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A small Darcs anomoly

2011-04-24 Thread Jason Dagit
in the details of how to do it, I would suggest asking on the darcs-users mailing list. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
in Haskell * It's not popular enough * People say they just don't get patch theory I hope that helps, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question about the Monad instance for Iteratee (from the enumerator package)

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM, John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net wrote: This is a much cleaner definition of Iteratee and I'm happy to see it. I'm confused by this comment. Isn't John Lato's implementation of Iteratee (on hackage) is based on the example implementation that Oleg pointed you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
consuming more and more CPU time until the repository dies. Undoing this requires using darcs-fastconvert and performing manual surgery on the export files. Yes, this is true. Exponential merges still exist, although they are relatively rare with a darcs-2 formated repository. Jason

[Haskell-cafe] Killing threads in foreign calls.

2011-04-17 Thread Jason Dusek
the problem is that you can't kill a thread while it's in a foreign call? I do not see any documentation to this effect; but I may have missed it. -- Jason Dusek ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Killing threads in foreign calls.

2011-04-17 Thread Jason Dusek
in the query thread? I gather I need to write the busy loop for polling for data in Haskell. Although libpq has a procedure -- PGgetResult -- that polls for data, it would not respond to killThread. -- Jason Dusek () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Assimp FFI Library

2011-04-11 Thread Jason Dagit
this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.102.108 I hope that helps! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
* add support for opengl 4.x * look at adding deprecation pragmas for deprecated opengl calls * new hackage releases * anything else that comes up Thanks, Jason On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I sent the message below to Haskell-Cafe about a week ago. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
#57 and #58 that make a case for removing OpenGL and GLUT entirely from the platform. Tickets #57 and #58 seem to be old though. If you have more information or I overlooked something, please let me know :) Thanks, Jason On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problems porting ghc6-6.10.1 to GNU/Hurd using 6.8.2

2011-04-05 Thread Jason Dagit
like strace? Good luck! Jason [1] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users[2] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-contact

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fast conversion between Vector Double and Vector CDouble

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
to unsafeCoerce, I would hope you'd get a C compile error on those platforms, but I don't know for certain if that's the case. In my opinion, it's the conversion functions that need to be fixed. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Using _ on the RHS of an equation?

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
sizeOf _ = sizeOf #{size struct Foo} alignment _ = alignment (_ :: Bar) -- we can't instantiate a Bar \end{code} Is this something people would be interested in having as an extension in GHC? Or is it just too fluffy for anyone to really care? Thanks, Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Using _ on the RHS of an equation?

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On 4 April 2011 22:42, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Is this something people would be interested in having as an extension in GHC? Or is it just too fluffy for anyone to really care? I wish for having

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
plan is to build a higher level interface on top once a sufficient portion of the API is available to Haskell. You can find the source on github in the cabalization branch: * https://github.com/dagit/freetype2 Patches welcome! Thanks, Jason ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings on hackage. These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 and use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2. This package should

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A maintenance command of Haskell cabal packages

2011-03-31 Thread Jason Dagit
? Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Encoding-aware System.Directory functions

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Dagit
for it. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from Jason Dagit's message of Tue Mar 29 00:43:10 -0400 2011: I was reading up on the documentation for alloca and friends[1], which says, If any of the allocation functions fails, a value of nullPtr http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC / Cabal project proposal: specify Setup.hs dependencies

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Dagit
$0.02! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
message and ghci terminates == 2^31-1, I get a crash where windows pops up a little dialog saying my program (ghci) has crashed. The behavior seems to be inconsistent with the documentation. What is the correct behavior for alloca and friends and should I be checking for nullPtr? Thanks, Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on a 64bit version of windows here with more than 4GB of memory to spare for the GHC process. Unfortunately, allocaBytes takes an Int so I can't test it with a request larger than the amount of physical ram I have

[Haskell-cafe] Unboxing CFloat and GLfloat

2011-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
don't need to be in base, the CFloat instance probably should be in base. Is this something I should make a library proposal for and submit patches? Is there an easier way to get these instances? Has someone already done this? Thanks, Jason ___ Haskell

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCEMENT: nehe-tuts 0.2.0, new release

2011-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
graphics card. Updating these examples to not rely on deprecated APIs should be easy, but I wanted an intermediate modernization release first. Enjoy! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Blocking problem reading a handle

2011-03-24 Thread Jason Dagit
and newer. What version of ghc are you using? The most recent haskell platform uses ghc 7.0.2. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help optimising a Haskell program

2011-03-22 Thread Jason Dagit
that helps, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trac login problem

2011-03-19 Thread Jason Dagit
I've experienced very similar problems several times on both the ghc and cabal trac instances. I think resetting your password is (or was) breaking accounts. Now I just stick to guest login accounts on all the haskell.org trac instances. Ideally, all the trac instances, haskell wiki and etc,

[Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-03-17 Thread Jason Dagit
Oct 2009? If a new maintainer is needed, I would consider nominating myself :) Thanks, Jason [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGLRaw [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/OpenGL [3] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLURaw [4] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/GLUT

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Linker flags for foreign export.

2011-03-13 Thread Jason Dusek
; hs_init(argc, argv); hs_add_root(__stginit_Foo); } Is there any case in which the empty string would be unsafe? -- Jason Dusek ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Linker flags for foreign export.

2011-03-11 Thread Jason Dusek
I now have it working for static-static on Linux; but not with dynamic anything yet. Thanks for all your help. -- Jason Dusek ()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org   - against proprietary attachments ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Linker flags for foreign export.

2011-03-09 Thread Jason Dusek
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 08:23, Max Bolingbroke batterseapo...@hotmail.com wrote: On 8 March 2011 05:28, Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com wrote:    gcc -g -Wall -O2 -fPIC -Wall -o import \      -I/usr/lib/ghc-6.12.1/include/ \      import.c exports.so In my experience, the easiest way to do

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Linker flags for foreign export.

2011-03-09 Thread Jason Dusek
SOs for the masses will have to wait a little bit, though. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: bash-0.0.0

2011-03-05 Thread Jason Dusek
trouble please let me know; this is the first Language.Something that I have written and it may not present the friendliest interface. Do let me know, also, if the omitted syntactic structures would be helpful to you and I will see what I can do to include them. -- Jason Dusek Linux User

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: bash-0.0.0

2011-03-05 Thread Jason Dusek
of a file into a script you construct with the Syntax, you might try the Language.Bash.Annotations.Lines datatype. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Thoughts on program annotations.

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Dusek
in the near future.) -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Thoughts on program annotations.

2011-03-03 Thread Jason Dusek
think? -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: unordered-containers - a new, faster hashing-based containers library

2011-02-18 Thread Jason Dusek
What are your thoughts on iterative construction of maplike datastructures? Could something like builder work for maps, too? In the project I'm working on, I have a function that receives a bunch of YAML fragments and builds a big YAML map out of them. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell wiki admins -- who are they?

2011-02-04 Thread Jason Dusek
I am having some trouble getting in to my account on the Haskell wiki. I requested a password ~24 hours ago reset but have not received the email yet. Who should I contact about this? -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell for children? Any experience?

2011-01-28 Thread Jason
valuable programming knowledge of all: passion. Best of luck and keep us up to date on your blog/reddit posts! -- Jason M. Knight ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen and QuickCheck

2011-01-26 Thread Jason Dagit
this problem? Someone sent me a patch to fix that, but right now community.haskell.org is down so you can't test it from the darcs repo :( I just did a new point release on hackage with the patch applied. Please try version 0.8.7 and do let me know if you have other issues. Thanks! Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] DFAs and self-referential data

2010-12-28 Thread Jason Dagit
! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Misleading MVar documentation

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Dagit
.html The links in Don's mail are broken. It seems that Simon Marlow's paper directory didn't survive the server transition: http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/ Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [darcs-users] Darcs failure

2010-12-22 Thread Jason Dagit
to report one bug. Just so you know, that's not true in this case. Anyone can send to b...@darcs and darcs-users was still using human moderators last I checked. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs failure

2010-12-21 Thread Jason Dagit
This question is more appropriate on the darcs-users mailing list. I've CC'd your message there. Jason On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: I'm running a VM with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). I installed Darcs 2.4.4 using apt-get, but it keeps

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on Debian - gcc compilation problem with cabal installed libs like hmatrix, etc.

2010-12-19 Thread Jason
test.hs -package hmatrix or tell ghc to try and intelligently track down all the relevant packages with: ghc --make test.hs. I hope that helps! -- Jason M. Knight Ph.D. Electrical Engineering '13 Texas AM University Cell: 512-814-8101 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 2:32 PM, gutti philipp.guttenb...@gmx.net

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell on Debian - gcc compilation problem with cabal installed libs like hmatrix, etc.

2010-12-19 Thread Jason
.html . -- Jason M. Knight Ph.D. Electrical Engineering '13 Texas AM University Cell: 512-814-8101 On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:25 PM, gutti philipp.guttenb...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Jason, many,many thanks - it works. -- u saved the day Haskell rather seems like a steeper slope to be honest, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghc/dph

2010-12-14 Thread Jason
J.W., This came up recently here: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg84528.html http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg84528.htmlIt looks like your best bet may be to use GHC 6.12 until the now-separate dph libraries are released. -- Jason M. Knight Ph.D

[Haskell-cafe] The Monad Reader links are broken

2010-12-11 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I noticed today that the links in this article point to Haskell.org and they are broken: http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/previous-issues/ Maybe someone can fix this? Thanks! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http

Re: [Haskell-cafe] the beginning of the end

2010-12-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/4/10 21:35 , Jason Dagit wrote: In that case, here you go: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/216043045.rss http://twitter.com/statuses

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Out of memory if compiled with -O2, why?

2010-12-01 Thread Jason Dagit
then with -O2 it takes 1521 MB. I'm not sure where the extra 400 MB of memory are going. When I compile with: -fno-cse -fno-full-laziness and -O2, the memory usage (with g though n) is 1585 MB. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Conditional compilation for different versions of GHC?

2010-11-30 Thread Jason Dagit
else build-depends: base = 4 4.3 to this: if impl(ghc = 7) build-depends: base = 4.35 cpp-options: -DGHC7 else build-depends: base = 4 4.3 I hope that helps, Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: HaLVM 1.0: the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine

2010-11-30 Thread Jason
? Here's a running, open-source, available-now version in Haskell. Congrats to Galois for open sourcing this. Now let the collaboration begin. Would it be possible to run HaLVM on Amazon EC2? -- Jason M. Knight Ph.D. Electrical Engineering '13 Texas AM University Cell: 512-814-8101

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Fibon benchmark suite (v0.2.0)

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Dagit
at the FAQ but didn't see anything about it. * Are the numbers in the sample output seconds or milliseconds? What is the stddev (eg., what does the distribution of run-times look like)? Thanks, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: The Fibon benchmark suite (v0.2.0)

2010-11-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:47 PM, David Peixotto d...@rice.edu wrote: On Nov 9, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: I have a few questions: * What differentiates fibon from criterion? I see both use the statistics package. I think the two packages have different benchmarking targets

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com recent changes (and I need some volunteers)

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Dagit
haskell. For example, I only check reddit a few times a month if I remember at all. I can only speak for myself though :) Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Thunks

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Dagit
://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/users_guide/options-debugging.html#id595218 I hope that helps, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Thunks

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Dagit
, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Finite but not fixed length...

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Dusek
Is there a way to write a Haskell data structure that is necessarily only one or two or seventeen items long; but that is nonetheless statically guaranteed to be of finite length? -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.dewrote: Jason Dagit wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Ben Franksen ben.frank...@online.dewrote: One minor but important note: the hashed format is *not* readable with a darcs-1 program: Sorry about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finite but not fixed length...

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Dusek
Thanks everyone for your thoughtful replies. I might have expected a referral to a paper; it's a pleasant surprise to have these worked examples. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Re: Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Dagit
, it will be sufficient. I have a feeling you understand that but I'm not certain, hence the repeating :) Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finite but not fixed length...

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Dusek
is not necessarily. -- Jason Dusek Linux User #510144 | http://counter.li.org/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-12 Thread Jason Dagit
release candidate client still? Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-09 Thread Jason Dagit
-users mailing list[2]. Thanks, Jason [1] If you poke around on this page following links you can get a feeling for how performance changes between releases: http://wiki.darcs.net/Benchmarks 2.4.4 is a solid release. [2] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:43:42PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: The Haskell.org server doesn't have to be upgraded. Maintainers can install a newer darcs locally (cabal install darcs), do the upgrade locally

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Brent Yorgey byor...@seas.upenn.edu wrote: On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:43:42PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: The Haskell.org server doesn't have to be upgraded. Maintainers can install a newer darcs locally (cabal install darcs), do the upgrade locally

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bulletproof resource management

2010-10-08 Thread Jason Dagit
to optimize it away)? Have you looked at the left-fold enumerator style? It's what takusen[1,2] and it's the basis for iteratees[3]. [1] http://projects.haskell.org/takusen/ [2] http://okmij.org/ftp/Haskell/#takusen [3] http://okmij.org/ftp/Streams.html I hope that gives you food for thought, Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskellers.com profiles: advice requested

2010-10-07 Thread Jason Dagit
of experience I think. Of course, that doesn't work so well for people who have gaps in their experience. So allowing date ranges would probably be even better. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Notes from Haskell takes over the world BoF at ICFP

2010-10-06 Thread Jason Dagit
process for major work.            + bugs, tickets.        + Simon Marlow contributions are going up, and process is working well That's reassuring. Is their workflow documented for the benefit of other Haskell projects and the greater FOSS community in general? Thanks, Jason

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs vs. git

2010-10-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Conrad Parker con...@metadecks.org wrote: (subject changed for easy filtering of flamebait, removed libraries@) On 7 October 2010 10:45, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: At the risk of starting a darcs vs. git discussion I have some thoughts about

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ByteString missing rewrite RULES (zipWith' f a = pack . zipWith f a)

2010-10-05 Thread Jason Dusek
asking for it to match hash block sizes is a bit much). I don't have a horse in this race; but I am curious as to why you wouldn't ask for `chunkOverhead = 16' as that seems to be your intent as well as what the expression works out to on any machine in common use. -- Jason Dusek Linux User

Re: [Haskell-cafe] When I change the cabal file to say preference: base = 4

2010-09-29 Thread Jason Dagit
preferences. Base has a special thing where the preference overrides constraints when the upper bound is missing. Does the package in question have an upper bound on the version of base? Something like, base == 4.*, or base 3 base 5 ? Jason ___ Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: capture of idioms and patterns

2010-09-23 Thread Jason Dagit
benefit more from having a big dead-tree tome to stare at than they do from a web of read-write articles. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC), version 1.1.0

2010-09-22 Thread Jason Dagit
Congrats on the release! On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Atze Dijkstra a...@cs.uu.nl wrote:  * For the default backend libraries are provided until including    package haskell98. I'm having trouble parsing/understanding what you mean. Could you please elaborate? Thanks, Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] searching haskell-cafe ?

2010-09-19 Thread Jason Dagit
use gmane: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe There may be someway to do a google search that is restricted to just haskell-cafe archives but I'm not sure what the correct search syntax would be. Something about in-url and then the url of the archives. Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell/JDK/tail-calls etc. (please vote on bug No. 6804517)

2010-09-19 Thread Jason Dagit
it would be all green lights. As SPJ points out in [1], Scala gets by without the JVM supporting proper tail call. I hope that helps! Jason [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg47997.html [2] http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/05/16#fast [3] http://www.cs.rit.edu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: ieee version 0.7

2010-09-19 Thread Jason Dagit
this library ieee754? Note: The library itself seems cool, thanks for publishing it regardless of name! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unified Haskell login

2010-09-17 Thread Jason Dagit
site should support OpenID. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Curious why quot; cabal upgrade parsecquot; not installing latest version

2010-09-16 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:48 AM, Johannes Waldmann waldm...@imn.htwk-leipzig.de wrote: Jason Dagit dagit at codersbase.com writes: preference: base = 4, parsec = 3 I am trying this, but ... Warning: Error parsing config file /home/waldmann/.cabal/config:14: Parse of field 'preference

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Curious why cabal upgrade parsec not installing latest version

2010-09-15 Thread Jason Dagit
a 'one size fits all' policy on users with an essentially undocumented way to override it (which has to be applied for each cabal-install installation). I assume this strategy was picked because it was easy to implement and developer time can be scarce. Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] copy of boost graph library

2010-09-14 Thread Jason Dagit
a sufficient API for visitors already defined. Cheers, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] benchmarking c/c++ and haskell

2010-09-14 Thread Jason Dagit
://hackage.haskell.org/package/criterion I resisted using it for a while, but once I took the plunge I was quite happy with the results. It's a library that is definitely worth the spin up time (for me at least). Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cost: (:) vs head

2010-09-11 Thread Jason Dagit
guess yourself and use Criterion/ghc-core if you want to know which way is fastest. On the other hand, these are microbrenchmarks and should not be taken as representative of how they will perform inside a larger application. Evidence is always nice to have :) Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A new cabal odissey: cabal-1.8 breaking its own neck by updating its dependencies

2010-09-11 Thread Jason Dagit
. At that point I could no longer configure any packages needing FOO. In the end I had to reinstall ghc so I took it as a chance to upgrade to 6.12.3. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Form a haskell.org committee

2010-09-05 Thread Jason Dagit
. I believe he coordinated the process. http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] help me evangelize haskell.

2010-09-04 Thread Jason Dagit
. Thanks for all feedback so far. Perhaps give this talk: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/practical-haskell/ Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC-postgresql and safe/unsafe FFI calls

2010-09-01 Thread Jason Dagit
that there a little extra runtime overhead with this, but I'd have thought that negligible given all the other processing that goes on with these particular calls under the hood. Have you read this? http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/07/safety-first-ffi-and-threading/ Perhaps it answers your questions? Jason

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HDBC-postgresql and safe/unsafe FFI calls

2010-09-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:00 PM, David Powell da...@drp.id.au wrote: Thanks Jason, I think I had read that - I quite enjoy Edward's posts. Re-reading, seems to confirm what I thought, most (all?) of the FFI calls in HDBC-postgresql should be changed to safe. Yes I think so. Unless you know

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: iteratee-compress 0.1

2010-08-31 Thread Jason Dagit
prefer to see you add zlib support and keep the dependency :) Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Projects that could use student contributions?

2010-08-31 Thread Jason Dagit
much to ask for :) I hope that helps, Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Warning: Module `Prelude' is deprecated:

2010-08-26 Thread Jason Dagit
trick I never went back to try it. Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Fwd: Semantics of iteratees, enumerators, enumeratees?

2010-08-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Jason Dagit wrote: From a purely practical viewpoint I feel that treating the chunking as an abstraction leak might be missing the point. If you said, you wanted the semantics to acknowledge the chunking

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