RE: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-04 Thread Tobias Bexelius
cabal. /Tobias -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Judah Jacobson Sent: den 4 december 2008 01:07 To: Andrew Coppin Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew Coppin
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote: Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew Coppin
Jason Dusek wrote: Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I haven't seen similar problems on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-03 Thread Judah Jacobson
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote: Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-03 Thread Don Stewart
andrewcoppin: Jason Dusek wrote: Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I haven't seen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Coppin
John Goerzen wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:59:24PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: OK, now I'm puzzled. I don't remember that! :-} OK, I went back and looked at my Git logs and you're right. Wrong Andrew. Sorry. LOL! S'OK... I would welcome bug reports and, even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 2, at 14:44, Andrew Coppin wrote: Regardless, it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I haven't seen similar problems on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-02 Thread Jason Dusek
Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...it has been my general experience that almost everything obtained from Hackage fails miserably to compile under Windows. (IIRC, one package even used a Bash script as part of the build process!) I haven't seen similar problems on Linux. (But I don't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-01 Thread Jules Bean
Andrew Coppin wrote: What I *haven't* done yet is read the chapters where they try to claim that database programming is possible in Haskell. I'll have to do that at some point. Maybe this is where they reveal the Secret Formula that makes this stuff actually work properly... but somehow I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-01 Thread John Goerzen
Don Stewart wrote: Very curious. Did you file a bug report with the maintainers of the 30+ database packages on hackage? Or did you not have the underlying database drivers installed? Did you make any attempt to contact the authors to determine the cause of your problem? Incidentally,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-01 Thread Andrew Coppin
John Goerzen wrote: Don Stewart wrote: Very curious. Did you file a bug report with the maintainers of the 30+ database packages on hackage? Or did you not have the underlying database drivers installed? Did you make any attempt to contact the authors to determine the cause of your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-12-01 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:59:24PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: I don't think this state of affairs is unique in the Haskell world. Some people use Linux, Mac, or Windows as their main development box, but pretty much everybody tries to support all platforms. Incidentally, Andrew Coppin (CCd

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-11-29 Thread Andrew Coppin
Jason Dusek wrote: Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I *haven't* done yet is read the chapters where they try to claim that database programming is possible in Haskell. I'll have to do that at some point. Maybe this is where they reveal the Secret Formula that makes this stuff

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-11-29 Thread Gianfranco Alongi
As far as I know, wxHaskell was developed mainly for windows? On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Dusek wrote: Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I *haven't* done yet is read the chapters where they try to claim that database

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-11-29 Thread Jason Dusek
Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to be an unwritten law that any package involving non-Haskell components doesn't work on Windoze. Well, I'll have a chance to verify this soon enough. Have you posted your errors somewhere? -- _jsn

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-11-28 Thread Jason Dusek
Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I *haven't* done yet is read the chapters where they try to claim that database programming is possible in Haskell. I'll have to do that at some point. Maybe this is where they reveal the Secret Formula that makes this stuff actually work

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: Real World Haskell, now shipping

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Coppin
Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: Good evening - John Goerzen, Don Stewart and I are delighted to announce the availability of our book, Real World Haskell. It is 710 pages long, and published by O'Reilly Media. You know, I *was* going to rush out and buy this as soon as it hit the shelves. I was