Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 29 October 2010 17:33, Gregory Crosswhite wrote: > Also, this is a complete aside but what the heck.  :-) > > Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way that Java code and libraries > are documented?  It seems like whenever I try to figure out how to use a > piece of Java code, the functional

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Also, this is a complete aside but what the heck. :-) Has anyone else been driven crazy by the way that Java code and libraries are documented? It seems like whenever I try to figure out how to use a piece of Java code, the functionality is spread out over a huge collection of classes and me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
Or if you want to keep the advantages of a powerful type system, you can use Scala. Cheers, Greg On 10/28/10 9:53 PM, aditya siram wrote: I understand your frustration at not having free tested libs ready-to-go, Java/any-other-mainstream-language programmers tend to expect this and usually ge

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread aditya siram
I understand your frustration at not having free tested libs ready-to-go, Java/any-other-mainstream-language programmers tend to expect this and usually get it. If a lack of libs is a dealbreaker for you and you want to use a functional programming language with some of Haskell's advantages (like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Jeremy Shaw
On Oct 27, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Hello! I am in charge, sorry for the delay! A number of years ago I tried to form a MIME str

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Steve Severance
> 2) This is a "doocracy" (man do I hate that word!).  If there is a problem, > here's what you should do about it, in descending order of attractiveness: > > a) Fix it yourself > > b) Pay someone else to fix it > > c) Motivate or politely encourage others to fix it, providing moral support, > etc.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ertugrul Soeylemez
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer wrote: > > On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: > >> On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: > >> > >>> P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit > >>> and Stack Overflow,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread wren ng thornton
On 10/28/10 10:42 AM, Ben Millwood wrote: Here's the wiki page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight. If we think using . as qu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Antoine Latter
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: > On 28/10/2010 12:30 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: >>> >>> Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. >> >> Pick the "Classic" style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. > > Yes, at least with new Haddock you can *change

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, The key point is: you haven't paid any of us for this, and you have nothing even close to some sort of support contract. I perceive a sense of entitlement on your part that people owe you no-cost coding. Would you please stop perceiving this then? Because no I don't. I won't deny t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/28/2010 07:48 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote: Would anyone be interested in a project for a full-featured mail library? I don't think I'm capable of writing the whole thing myself, but I've started a github project at URL and would be happy to collaborate in IRC channel #channel o

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
On 29 October 2010 07:53, Daniel Fischer wrote: > On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: >> On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: >> > "Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the >> > Haskell Reddit. >> >> [SNIP] >> >> > P.S. I encourage people

Re: [Haskell-cafe] fundata1 -- Karmic Social Capital Benchmark and Shootout

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
Great stuff! I have an improvements to HashMaps that I'm working on that will hopefully work well here. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] fundata1 -- Karmic Social Capital Benchmark and Shootout

2010-10-28 Thread Alexy Khrabrov
I am happy to announce fundata1 -- the largest-ever program per RAM allocation in Haskell, originally implemented in Clojure and then OCaml and Haskell for social network modeling. http://github.com/alexy/fundata1 It has now become the first large-scale social networking benchmark with a real

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Peebles
> > There is this one posters who likes to repeatedly point out how none of his > programs ever needed email, so how could it be a problem then. Well good for > him, but in my experience it's needed. This is the main issue I think people had with your original posts. You say "good for him, but I

[Haskell-cafe] Re: who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hello Lennart, Am 29.10.10 01:44, schrieb Lennart Augustsson: It's working just fine. I've never wanted a mail client library. :) Yes, that is wonderful, I'm really happy for you :P -- Lennart ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, Am 29.10.10 01:23, schrieb John Goerzen: On 10/28/2010 05:44 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote: There is no need for a mail client library on many platforms. Just pipe the data to /usr/sbin/sendmail and poof. Done. That would work well for sending (on Unix), but not for receiving. Quite

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell meeting in Berlin

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel van den Eijkel
Hi, thanks to all participants for the funny meeting! I had a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to see you again. Best, Daniel Sönke Hahn schrieb: Hi all! There will be an informal Haskell meeting in Berlin. Date: Thursday, October 28th Time: from 20:00 Location: c-base, Rungestrasse 20,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Simon Michael
On 10/27/10 1:13 AM, Dmitry V'yal wrote: Code I wrote works quite well for my purposes and I copied it into several my programs. In order to make maintenance easier I recently thought about uploading it to hackage. But given a wast amount of half-dead packages with intersecting functionality ther

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Lennart Augustsson
It's working just fine. I've never wanted a mail client library. :) -- Lennart 2010/10/27 Günther Schmidt : > Dear Malcolm, > > since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to > rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. > > Günther > _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 16:48, Kevin Jardine wrote: > To be fair to the Haddock designer, red links are common these days. > > Here's two examples (among many): > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/ > http://www.slate.com/ > > In the second case the site uses blue, black *and* red links to > distinguish different

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/28/2010 05:44 PM, Günther Schmidt wrote: There is no need for a mail client library on many platforms. Just pipe the data to /usr/sbin/sendmail and poof. Done. That would work well for sending (on Unix), but not for receiving. Quite true. For receiving, we have tools like fetchmail, im

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread Günther Schmidt
Dear John, Am 28.10.10 23:57, schrieb John Goerzen: On 10/27/2010 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Why do you keep suggesting this? http://hackage.h

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If Python now has a good email library; how challenging is it to call Python from Haskell?

2010-10-28 Thread Evan Laforge
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, John Goerzen wrote: > On 10/27/2010 01:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote: >> >> Don't know, but probably challenging enough to make it worth challenging >> the assumption that Python now has a good email library. >> >>> From a cursory look at the 3.0 library documentation, it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On 28/10/10 17:14, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Fair enough. Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github >> organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? >> >> That is, can I stop going to Hackage to find the home

Re: [Haskell-cafe] If Python now has a good email library; how challenging is it to call Python from Haskell?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 01:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote: Don't know, but probably challenging enough to make it worth challenging the assumption that Python now has a good email library. From a cursory look at the 3.0 library documentation, it looks to me like IMAP support still means the old imaplib module.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 11:55 AM, Ketil Malde wrote: What does "essential" mean? Something a hypothetical dictator wants, but nobody else? For surely, if your email library was so essential, it'd be included among the hundreds of libraries on Hackage? Perhaps it is a lot less important than you think?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] who's in charge?

2010-10-28 Thread John Goerzen
On 10/27/2010 10:08 AM, Günther Schmidt wrote: Dear Malcolm, since there is no mail client library even after 10+ years I suggest to rethink the approach, because frankly, it's not working. Why do you keep suggesting this? http://hackage.haskell.org/package/WashNGo There is no need for a mai

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread John Millikin
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:34, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you > already know: I'm an idiot. > > More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and > then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to updat

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 28 October 2010 22:44:04, Stephen Tetley wrote: > On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: > > "Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the > > Haskell Reddit. > > [SNIP] > > > P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and > > Stack Ov

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
stephen.tetley: > On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: > > > > "Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the > > Haskell Reddit. > > [SNIP] > > > P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack > > Overflow, as a lot of the question-answe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Aleksandar Dimitrov
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:44:04 +0200, Stephen Tetley wrote: P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there now, away from -cafe@ Err, Why? Having to track three places for information rather t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 28 October 2010 20:59, Don Stewart wrote: > > "Status of Infrastructure" questions like this are best asked on the > Haskell Reddit. [SNIP] > P.S. I encourage people to use the online forums: Haskell Reddit and Stack > Overflow, as a lot of the question-answering activity has shifted there >

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
gcross: > On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: >> More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package >> and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. >> And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely >> the wrong category.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On 10/28/10 12:34 PM, Andrew Coppin wrote: More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously placed in completely the wrong category. I am glad to hear that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 28/10/2010 12:30 PM, Sebastian Fischer wrote: Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. Pick the "Classic" style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. Yes, at least with new Haddock you can *change* the style without having to actually patch (and recompile) Haddock

[Haskell-cafe] Edit Hackage

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
Today I uploaded a package to Hackage, and rediscovered something that you already know: I'm an idiot. More specifically, I copied the Cabal description from another package and then updated all the fields. Except that I forgot to update one. And now I have a package which I've erroneously pla

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 19:06, Andrew Coppin wrote: > On 28/10/2010 09:25 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin >>  wrote: >>> >>> GHC has a _parallel_ GC implementation, meaning that the GC event runs in >>> parallel on several cores. But it does not (yet)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Ketil Malde
"Sittampalam, Ganesh" writes: > Have you tried passing -optl-static to ghc (which causes -static to be > passed to ld)? It used to be: -optl-static -optl-pthread But it doesn't seem to work anymore on my install. % ./a.out a.out: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize: A

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Ryan Ingram
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:09 AM, Dupont Corentin wrote: > EAp :: Exp ref (a -> b) -> Exp ref a -> Exp ref b > It's from which DSL? It is accessible on the net? It's my own, just written off the top of my head as an example. Accessible "on the net": yes, it's in your email. there's nothing more.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 28/10/2010 09:25 AM, Erik Hesselink wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin wrote: GHC has a _parallel_ GC implementation, meaning that the GC event runs in parallel on several cores. But it does not (yet) have _concurrent_ GC, meaning that a GC event can happen at the same time

RE: [Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Conor McBride wrote: > Is there some way I can get some more static linking to happen? > I did poke about online a bit and found some remarks to the effect > that GHC got so much more portable after switching to the dynamic > libffi. That sounds great, but tough luck for me. > > So, being both

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > Fair enough. Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github > organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? > > That is, can I stop going to Hackage to find the home for HP packages? That's never been our intentio

[Haskell-cafe] libffi mystery

2010-10-28 Thread Conor McBride
Hi again This is what happens when you write actual for-users for-running programs, I guess. It's been a while... I've been writing some software with Network.CGI etc, which we run on the deparmental web server for my students to use. But we just had a bit of an upgrade on the system, and now (o

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > Fair enough.  Do you have enough buy-in to make sure that the github > organisation becomes the best location for *all* HP packages? > > That is, can I stop going to Hackage to find the home for HP packages? Probably not. I don't want to f

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 15:58, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: >> If I, as the developer of the FOO Haskell package, want to move to use >> github, can I get a source repo under that organisation as well? >> I'm asking since I am considering taking s

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:41 AM, John Lato wrote: > Similarly, what's the remit of the Haskell organization on github?  Is the > intention to be an umbrella for any haskell package, or more restricted?  I > have the same question as Magnus (although in my case I took over something > on github; if

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Johan Tibell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Magnus Therning wrote: > If I, as the developer of the FOO Haskell package, want to move to use > github, can I get a source repo under that organisation as well? > I'm asking since I am considering taking some of my packages from > patch-tag to github (it's reall

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Kevin Jardine
To be fair to the Haddock designer, red links are common these days. Here's two examples (among many): http://www.bbc.co.uk/ http://www.slate.com/ In the second case the site uses blue, black *and* red links to distinguish different types of content. They are all in bold and underline when hover

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Ben Millwood
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, John Smith wrote: > On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: >> >> Hi haskellers. >> >> Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is >> the CompositionAsDot issue. >> >> I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: >> * Paves the way

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal mystery (#562?)

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Fischer
On Thursday 28 October 2010 15:08:09, Conor McBride wrote: > So I poked about a bit, and I see it's a known issue. As a user, I'm > wondering what to do. Try with HTTP-4000.0.9 instead of 4000.0.7? > > Just now, > >    wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz > > is chuggi

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Emil Axelsson
2010-10-28 12:09, Dupont Corentin skrev: I'm also looking at the Atom's DSL to get inspiration. Something I don't understand in it is that it has two languages, on typed: data E a where VRef :: V a -> E a Const:: a -> E a Cast :: (NumE a, NumE b) => E a -

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Test command line programs

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
Thanks for your responses. Of course I already test every pure parts of my program easily. For now, user input is treated in 2 different ways: - direct IO with hgetLine and like functions (blocking) - the same but I directly push the strings on a TChan for another thread to treat them (not blockin

[Haskell-cafe] cabal mystery (#562?)

2010-10-28 Thread Conor McBride
Hi I've just installed cabal-install (just as a user: I am nowhere near root) on our unix server at work. That went fine. Clearly, the sensible thing to do next is get hold of an up-to-date package list. So, I tried co...@cafe:~$ cabal update Downloading the latest package list from hackage.has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
This is really cool. The blog post [3] finally explained to me why I had so much difficulties implementing the Equal constructor ;) I shared this in a previous thread: http://osdir.com/ml/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/2010-06/msg00369.html Maybe latter I'll shift to a class type based DSL. They seem mo

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread steffen
I think you would love to have a look at AwesomePrelude[1] or a fork of AwesomePrelude using associated types[2] Some more background information by Tom Lokhorst [3][4]. [1] http://github.com/tomlokhorst/AwesomePrelude [2] http://github.com/urso/AwesomePrelude [3] http://tom.lokhorst.eu/2009/09/de

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNAUNCE] ghcjs-0.1.0 Haskell to Javascript compiler

2010-10-28 Thread Victor Nazarov
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Martijn Schrage wrote: > On 27-10-10 16:20, Victor Nazarov wrote: >> >> Very cool. I'll incorporate your changes, If you don't mind. > > Not at all. >> >> However, I have some minor remarks. >> You shouldn't override hscall function, or you may break partial >> app

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Sebastian Fischer
Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. Pick the "Classic" style in the style menu. It will remember your choice. Sebastian ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Malcolm Wallace
if I could move to darcs and preserve history I would. Search for "git fastexport" and "darcs-fastconvert". Regards, Malcolm ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: language-java-0.1.0

2010-10-28 Thread Niklas Broberg
> I'm sure there are a number of bugs waiting to be discovered, my own > testing hasn't been overly extensive. I'm setting up a trac, will > follow up with its location once it's up. http://trac.haskell.org/language-java Cheers, /Niklas ___ Haskell-Caf

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: language-java-0.1.0

2010-10-28 Thread Niklas Broberg
Hi café, I found myself in need of a source manipulation suite for Java code. A hackage search turned up nothing, so I wrote one: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/language-java I'm sure there are a number of bugs waiting to be discovered, my own testing hasn't been overly extensive. I'm settin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Victor Oliveira
Maybe we can keep at least the docs without red links. It's very eye tiring to read. One option is to keep the links black with :hover red. []s Victor On Oct 28, 2010, at 5:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Done > wrote: >> On 28 October 2010 03:41, V

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread John Smith
On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module syst

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Map constructor in a DSL

2010-10-28 Thread Dupont Corentin
Thank you for your rich responses. Indeed I think I miss some thinks in my DSL, that would make things easier to deal with lists and first class functions. I don't really know what for now. Perhaps a List Constructor? Or a constructor on functions like yours Ryan? EAp :: Exp ref (a -> b) -> Exp re

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Andy Stewart
Dmitry V'yal writes: > On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: >> Christopher Done writes: >> >>> On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yal wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread John Lato
> > From: Magnus Therning > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 22:53, Johan Tibell > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > To ease my maintenance burden, I've moved the network package repo to: > > > > Â Â http://github.com/haskell/network > > > > Patches are accepted either in the git mbox format, as normal (diff)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote: > I think I recognize this issue from common lisp.  Basically the code becomes > verbose because accessor functions usually need to redundantly encode the > name of the module or struct in its name.  The alternative is to require > users to impor

Re: [Haskell-cafe] concurrency vs. I/O in GHC

2010-10-28 Thread Erik Hesselink
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 23:09, Andrew Coppin wrote: > On 27/10/2010 05:00 PM, John Lato wrote: >> >> I am somewhat surprised that all capabilities must be ready for GC; I >> thought with the parallel GC that wouldn't be necessary.  But I don't know >> much about GC implementations so I try not to

[Haskell-cafe] Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

2010-10-28 Thread Alexander Kjeldaas
Hi haskellers. Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue. I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module systems I think I recognize this issue from common lisp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] On being called a troll

2010-10-28 Thread Ketil Malde
Antoine Latter writes: >> I have posted to this list for over 3 years now and until lately it was an >> enlightening experience. The responses to my questions have usually been >> helpful and friendly. Right - in most cases, the Haskell community is fanatically non-hostile. At least compared to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Does it deserve to be a hackage package?

2010-10-28 Thread Dmitry V'yal
On 27.10.2010 13:16, Andy Stewart wrote: Christopher Done writes: On 27 October 2010 10:13, Dmitry V'yal wrote: While ago I had a question about opening the url in the default browser from haskell program. I didn't get any immediate answers so I wrote my own solution. On Linux it uses xdg-op

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Christopher Done wrote: > On 28 October 2010 03:41, Victor Oliveira wrote: >> Hi Cafe, >> >> I really liked the new colors of haskell theme, but... >> >> Is really red a good color for links?  At least for me, red links looks like >> broken or already visited one

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Red links in the new haskell theme

2010-10-28 Thread Christopher Done
On 28 October 2010 03:41, Victor Oliveira wrote: > Hi Cafe, > > I really liked the new colors of haskell theme, but... > > Is really red a good color for links?  At least for me, red links looks like > broken or already visited ones. > > And the worst is hackage docs. It is really eye tiring to r

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New repo location for the network package

2010-10-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 22:53, Johan Tibell wrote: > Hi all, > > To ease my maintenance burden, I've moved the network package repo to: > >    http://github.com/haskell/network > > Patches are accepted either in the git mbox format, as normal (diff) > patch files, or as GitHub pull requests. > > P