[Haskell-cafe] Re: Elevator pitch for Haskell.

2007-09-05 Thread Simon Michael
I agree actually. That picture, while very cool, won't help Haskell marketing one bit. :) Lisp's made with alien technology is much more inviting: http://www.lisperati.com/logo.html . I wish we could use it! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Simon Michael
The gmane newsgroups corresponding to haskell mail lists can be found eg at: http://gmane.org/find.php?list=haskell ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@

2007-09-24 Thread Simon Michael
* Rename haskell@ to haskell-announce@, and redirect mails from haskell@ to haskell-announce@ for some period. (more, but can be done step by step in the future) +1. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hosting of Haskell project

2007-10-10 Thread Simon Michael
Haskell developers who want their own wiki with a simple issue tracker[1] and email integration[2] are also welcome to set one up at http://zwiki.org/FreeHosting . Cheers - Simon [1] http://zwiki.org/IssueTracker [2] http://zwiki.org/Mail ___

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Bravo-0.1.0

2010-03-11 Thread Simon Michael
Thank you, how does it compare to HStringTemplate ? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] #haskell-web, anyone ?

2010-03-14 Thread Simon Michael
We just had a big old web dev discussion in #darcs, which made me want to hang out in #haskell-web and hear more of the same. I think it existed briefly and died, but maybe it's time to try again ? Normally I don't like removing interesting chat from the main channel, but #haskell is often

[Haskell-cafe] calling hledger zurihackers

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Michael
Roman C. has cleverly added hledger to the list of topics for this weekend's ZuriHac. I will be working remotely at least on sunday (PDT), and available to support where possible. You are invited to join us! Some ideas - - add Chart or google charts to the web ui - smarter add/convert

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Simon Michael
Well said. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-05 Thread Simon Michael
On 4/2/10 5:28 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: How about something more colourful? http://i.imgur.com/7jCPq.png No-one replied to this, but I like it. You sacrificed some information density for a simple, engaging, low-stress page (which can still rotate in new content frequently). Anything

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell.org re-design

2010-04-07 Thread Simon Michael
On 4/7/10 9:53 AM, Thomas Schilling wrote: Yup, I have to agree. The Ruby web site certainly is the best web site for a programming language that I've come across, but it's certainly not amazing. I like the python documentation design, but their home page is a bit dull. Anyway, here's another

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GSoC: Improving Cabal's Test Support

2010-04-07 Thread Simon Michael
On 4/7/10 12:33 PM, Duncan Coutts wrote: The importance of this is that it lets us develop improved testsuite interfaces in future. At the moment there are two test interfaces we want to support. One is the simple unix style exit code + stdout interface. This is good because it is a lowest

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: darcsum.el 1.2 released

2010-04-08 Thread Simon Michael
With Christian's blessing, I have taken over maintenance of darcsum and would like to announce the 1.2 release: darcs get http://joyful.com/repos/darcsum -t 1.2 darcsum is an occasionally fragile but tremendously useful emacs ui for darcs. There is also vc-darcs.el, but I am quite productive

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: darcsum.el 1.2 released

2010-04-09 Thread Simon Michael
On 4/9/10 11:48 AM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote: Maybe i'm not understanding the problem, but cannot you just accumulate the output in an auxiliary variable and parse the ouput as a whole once the darcs process finishes? I think no, because it is driving darcs interactively to select hunks - it

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: shelltestrunner 0.8 released

2010-04-09 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce a new release of shelltestrunner, a tool which aims to make testing command-line programs easy. Thanks to Bernie Pope for contributing features and valuable feedback. Example: $ cabal install shelltestrunner ... $ cat - a.test # a simple test - run cat, provide

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.9 released

2010-04-09 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce a new hledger release, with many bugfixes and small improvements, GHC 6.12 support, and a separate library package to make building (h)ledger-compatible tools easier. Thanks to Oliver Braun and Gwern Branwen for code contributions this release. Just in time for tax

[Haskell-cafe] auto-recompile (Re: Haskell web dev - ASP .NET analogue?)

2010-04-15 Thread Simon Michael
Re the auto-recompiling part, here is one of my favourite tools. I have used it to auto-build happstack, yesod and hakyll apps/sites: # continuous integration - recompile and restart # whenever a module changes. sp is from searchpath.org, you might # need the patched version from

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: test-framework 0.3.0

2010-05-07 Thread Simon Michael
On 5/7/10 10:49 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote: * There is a new command line option (--plain), which tells the test runner to avoid using any ANSI features - this can be handy if you are (for example) viewing test output in Emacs Thanks! I'll use that in the next release of shelltestrunner.

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.10 released

2010-05-23 Thread Simon Michael
hledger 0.10 is released, with installation and bug fixes and api improvements. Best, -Simon home: http://hledger.org Release notes: 2010/05/23 hledger 0.10 * fix too-loose testpack dependency, missing safe dependency * fix ghc 6.12 compatibility with -fweb

[Haskell-cafe] Re: proposal: HaBench, a Haskell Benchmark Suite

2010-06-24 Thread Simon Michael
On 6/24/10 4:24 PM, Andy Georges wrote: Or if any of you out there have (recent) apps with inputs that are open source ... let us know. Hi Andy.. you could run the hledger benchmarks, roughly like so: $ cabal install tabular $ darcs get --lazy http://joyful.com/repos/hledger $ cd hledger $

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Design for 2010.2.x series Haskell Platform site

2010-07-16 Thread Simon Michael
Wow. I would instantly download anything that page cared to offer. :) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.11

2010-07-17 Thread Simon Michael
hledger 0.11 is released! Thanks to all testers and to Michael Snoyman for much help keeping up with Yesod. Best, -Simon home: http://hledger.org Release notes: 2010/07/17 hledger 0.11 * split --help, adding --help-options and --help-all/-H, and make it the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: unusual behavior from cabal

2010-07-17 Thread Simon Michael
On 7/16/10 9:36 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: Michael Litchardmich...@schmong.org writes: cabal: dependencies conflict: happstack-server-0.5.1 requires time ==1.1.4 however time-1.1.4 was excluded because happstack-server-0.5.1 requires time ==1.2.0.3 I did battle with this one today.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: announcing the darcs 2.0.0 release

2008-04-08 Thread Simon Michael
David, thank you for the last push, and clear re-org! And thanks to all darcs 2 contributors. -Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Any example of concurrent haskell application?

2009-10-08 Thread Simon Michael
rss2irc is a small app using two communicating threads, and that much works well. The error handling may be quite ideal. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Writing great documentation

2009-11-13 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks for this topic and the link; I'm going to try to use it to improve the docs for hledger and my other projects. (And I agree, he's wrong about auto-generated docs.) I seem to remember admiring Parsec's documentation. Though, that reminds me.. A very common problem with online docs is

[Haskell-cafe] hledger 0.7 released

2009-12-12 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce hledger 0.7. Thanks to Marko Kocić who contributed many fixes for hlint warnings. To install/upgrade: cabal update cabal install hledger [-fweb] [- fvty] Documentation: http://hledger.org Release notes: * price history support (first cut): P directives now

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Design question, HTML for GUIs?

2010-01-12 Thread Simon Michael
hledger does this, using happstack (or in theory, any hack back end). http://joyful.com/repos/hledger/Commands/Web.hs might give some ideas. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Using Cabal during development

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Michael
Another great thread. I'm another who uses both make and cabal. I try to automate a lot of things and find a makefile easier for quick scripting. Perhaps at some point I'll get by with just cabal. Here's an example: http://joyful.com/repos/hledger/Makefile An unusual feature, I think, is the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: Dungeons of Wor - a largish FRP example and a fun game, all in one!

2010-02-11 Thread Simon Michael
Exciting! But on a mac, I can't get the window to become focussed or accept input. Tips ? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.8 released

2010-02-11 Thread Simon Michael
as default (Roman Cheplyaka) * add: a command-line argument now filters by account during history matching (Roman Cheplyaka) * chart: new command, generates balances pie chart (requires - fchart flag, gtk2hs) (Roman Cheplyaka, Simon Michael) * register: make reporting intervals honour

[Haskell-cafe] Re: GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

2010-03-05 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Kevin, I just wanted to say that's a very nice analogy. Thanks! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Filename encoding error (was: Perform a research a la Unix 'find')

2010-08-23 Thread Simon Michael
I've been banging my head on the same issues. To summarise: GHC 6.12 strings are unicode; unix file paths are slightly restricted byte strings; the former is used to represent the latter, leading to great confusion; the best way to fix it is unclear. Here's a workaround I wrote this morning:

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.12.1

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce hledger 0.12.1, with a new web interface and bugfixes. Thanks to Ben Boeckel and David Patrick for their help this time around. Installation docs, linux/mac/windows binaries and more are at http://hledger.org and http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ hledger .

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

2010-09-06 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Brent, ditto what Jeremy said. hledger is an end-user app with lots of needs including code design review, performance and laziness analysis, quickcheck/smallcheck testing, development process refinement, web design, and features/fixes of all sizes. I'd be happy to mentor volunteers.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Idea for hackage feature

2010-09-16 Thread Simon Michael
On 9/16/10 9:44 AM, Bas van Dijk wrote: I try to add NEWS files to my packages source repositories[1] but it sure would be nice if this file was directly shown on hackage. Agreed. For now I sometimes put the most recent release notes in the description, like

[Haskell-cafe] Re: problems using macports?

2010-09-24 Thread Simon Michael
On 09/23/2010 10:41 PM, Mitar wrote: The other would be probably to implement/document configuration (extra-lib-dir?) that Cabal (or GHC in general) first searches system's library path (those against which GHC was compiled in Haskell Platform) and if lib is not there goes for MacPorts or Fink's

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Coding conventions for Haskell?

2010-09-27 Thread Simon Michael
On 09/26/2010 09:41 PM, Alexander Solla wrote: Remember to treat values, functions, and monadic actions as servers that respond to your requests. This is the easiest way to maximize the value of Haskell's laziness. I haven't heard that one before. Could you give an example ?

[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

[Haskell-cafe] [issue1002] darcs support for ohloh: call for help

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Michael
Many of us are interested, and Ohloh is interested, in getting ohloh.net to support darcs repositories directly. It doesn't look hard to get good-enough support working; it just requires hacking 10 or so simple, well-organised ruby files. I've made a start on github[1], and set up a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs support for ohloh: call for help

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Michael
PS I forgot to describe: Ohloh (http://ohloh.net) provides useful metadata, stats, rankings etc. for free/open-source software projects, quite good for marketing and project management. Haskell projects and developers would benefit from this, but have long been excluded because it does not yet

[Haskell-cafe] status (Re: [issue1002] darcs support for ohloh)

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Michael
The status/how-to page has moved to a nicer url: http://etherpad.osuosl.org/ohloh-darcs-support 5 of the 10 ohloh darcs adapter test files are now passing. Come and help put us over the top. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] status (Re: [issue1002] darcs support for ohloh)

2010-11-08 Thread Simon Michael
Current status of http://etherpad.osuosl.org/ohloh-darcs-support (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1002): I got the ohloh_scm darcs adapter tests passing and now we are awaiting review from Ohloh, which could take a while as they are still in transition. If you wish, add your support to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal, xmonad-contrib, X11-xft, pkg-config ... questioning my sanity

2010-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
On 12/6/10 7:25 AM, Duncan Coutts wrote: cabal: The program 'pkg-config' is required but it could not be found on the system (version 0.9.0 or later of pkg-config is required). Looks good. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
I've released hledger 0.13, with readline editing and tab completion from Judah Jacobson, more ledger compatibility, a more robust and installable web interface, bugfixes, and a much-deliberated package split. Docs and mac and 64-bit linux binaries are at http://hledger.org , and of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-07 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Peter, no reason as far as hledger and hledger-lib is concerned, but one of the add-on packages, which depends on them, also requires process 1.0.1.4. If you install hledger or hledger-lib with the older version of process, then cabal is not able to install the add-on package. Sorry

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-08 Thread Simon Michael
On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Peter Simons wrote: do you by any chance remember which dependency that was? I wonder, because I had no trouble compiling hledger 0.13's dependencies on a standard GHC 6.12.3 system -- only hledger itself fails the cabal configure stage --, so it seems to me like all

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-09 Thread Simon Michael
On Dec 9, 2010, at 3:35 AM, Peter Simons wrote: you said that a dependency of one of those packages would require process = 1.0.1.4. Now, what I don't understand is why you added that restriction to hledger then? Picture this common scenario, which I saw during installability testing - you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-09 Thread Simon Michael
On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Peter Simons wrote: I can tell it's doing more harm than good. The situation right now is that it's impossible to install hledger on ArchLinux -- not because Why ? I haven't yet heard why depending on the higher process version is a problem.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.13

2010-12-09 Thread Simon Michael
On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Simon Michael wrote: On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Peter Simons wrote: that it's impossible to install hledger on ArchLinux -- not because Why ? I haven't yet heard why depending on the higher process version is a problem. Oh, is it because you are avoiding use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hledget: mtv vs transformers

2011-01-20 Thread Simon Michael
You mean mtl 2.*, right ? Yes that is a problem. I'm nervous about requiring mtl 2 because when I bumped hledger 0.13's process dependency to 0.14 for similar reasons it made all kinds of trouble for folks who just want to install the hledger core in standard/older haskell environments.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] hledger: mtl vs transformers

2011-01-21 Thread Simon Michael
On 1/20/11 10:02 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote: Couldn't you depend on either version of mtl? I currently depend on mtl, no version.. am I missing your point ? On 1/21/11 2:50 AM, Dmitry Astapov wrote: something pulled in newer process in the process, which caused another wave of rebuilds.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-19 Thread Simon Michael
Yes, it is bad that the runhaskell Setup interface has a different default. But, as Duncan said, too late to change it now. Why, especially as it seems something you would now rarely use directly ? (When would you want it ?) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: Utrecht Haskell Compiler (UHC) -- first release

2009-04-19 Thread Simon Michael
I meant, why is it too late to change the Setup interface to match cabal's --user by default behaviour ? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Is Haskell a Good Choice for Web Applications? (ANN: Vocabulink)

2009-05-04 Thread Simon Michael
A very interesting read, thank you Chris! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.5 released

2009-05-23 Thread Simon Michael
the web server handle the null path * code, api and documentation updates * add a contributor agreement/list Release contributors: * Simon Michael * Sergey Astanin Release stats: * Days since last release: 51 * Committers: 2 * Commits: 101 * Lines of non-test code: 2795 * Known

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Error message reform (was: Strange type error with associated type synonyms)

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Michael
Achim Schneider wrote: expected/encountered Expected/actual ? Familiar to users of test frameworks. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] understanding regex libs

2009-06-03 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Chris.. thanks for your extensive work on haskell regex libs. I'm looking for a good way to make my regex-using app more portable to windows. I couldn't figure out the difference between the regex-pcre and regex- pcre-builtin on hackage. Could you clarify ? Best regards, -Simon

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: The Haskell Platform 2009.2.0.1

2009-06-03 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks a lot to all working on this. This is just a small experience report. I successfully installed the HP on a borrowed windows XP professional, version 5.1.2600. It was very smooth. It felt like a largeish install; I was glad I had a fast link. Afterward I had a GHC submenu in start menu -

[Haskell-cafe] Re: understanding regex libs

2009-06-03 Thread Simon Michael
pcre-builtin ships the PCRE C library internally. Regular regex-pcre relies on the DLL somewhere on your system. Thanks, this sounds like what I need for windows installability. Maybe this should be mentioned in regex-pcre-builtin's hackage page and haddock docs. Is there any downside to

[Haskell-cafe] Re: understanding regex libs

2009-06-04 Thread Simon Michael
Magnus Therning wrote: Once you find out please update the page on the wiki covering the different regular expression libs available for Haskell: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Regular_expressions That's a good page, which I've updated a little. It would still be good to clarify the hackage

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.6 released

2009-06-13 Thread Simon Michael
full patterns period expressions * new stats command reports some ledger statistics * many dev/doc/deployment infrastructure improvements * move website into darcs repo, update home page * move issue tracker to google code Release stats: * Contributors: Simon Michael * Days since last

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.6.1 released

2009-06-22 Thread Simon Michael
I have released hledger 0.6.1 which fixes a build problem with ghc 6.8. You can ignore this release if you use a newer ghc or if one of the http://hledger.org/binaries works for you. Thanks to Andreas Reuleaux for the report. More reports welcome on irc, list or

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hack (web) and apache configuration

2009-06-25 Thread Simon Michael
harack ? *Harack*. Excuse me. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] test-framework success

2009-06-27 Thread Simon Michael
Max - I was thinking about how to drive my new shell tests with your framework. I have: data ShellTest = ShellTest { filename ∷ String ,command ∷ String ,stdin∷ Maybe String ,stdoutExpected ∷ Maybe String ,stderrExpected ∷ Maybe String

[Haskell-cafe] Re: test-framework success

2009-06-27 Thread Simon Michael
PS - not cabalised, not even committed, but here's my shell test runner for folks to play with: http://joyful.com/repos/hledger/tools/shelltest2.hs http://joyful.com/repos/hledger/tests/ - test examples ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: loli: a minimal web dev DSL

2009-06-29 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks for this! I am using it since yesterday. And also for all the Hack work. I can switch my loli app's back end between happstack and hyena (eg) by changing a single import. Nice. There is a problem with Safari, I think in either loli or hack: at the top of the page you see http headers

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Help needed to pick a better name then hack

2009-07-03 Thread Simon Michael
We've had the Common Gateway Interface.. and the Web Server Gateway Interface.. now I think it's high time for the Haskell And General Gateway Interface for Servers. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: shelltestrunner 0.6 released

2009-07-15 Thread Simon Michael
And the urls: home - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/shelltestrunner darcs repo - http://joyful.com/repos/shelltestrunner ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: shelltestrunner 0.6 released

2009-07-15 Thread Simon Michael
(and, the original which I didn't cc to -cafe.) I'm pleased to announce the first release of shelltestrunner: a small tool for testing any command-line program by running it through shell tests defined with a simple file format. Each test can specify the command-line arguments, input,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Implicit concatenation in list comprehensions

2009-07-22 Thread Simon Michael
It was the perl community that brought me to haskell - by their interesting choice of implementation language for Pugs - and I'm grateful to them for this among other things! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Request for Comments - hscurrency 0.0.1

2009-08-17 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks for sharing this. If you haven't already, also check out http://hledger.org/api-doc - Amount and Commodity modules for possibly related work. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Planning for a website

2009-08-18 Thread Simon Michael
I can give a +1 vote for the Hack api and related libs. (Jinjing Wang is a one-man army.) Below hack you'll run happstack or another web-serving lib. Above hack you might run some combination of loli, maid, the hack middleware modules, hsp. The advantage is that changing the low-level server

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Help starting a Haskell blog

2009-08-22 Thread Simon Michael
Nice tricks! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: rss2irc 0.3 released

2009-08-24 Thread Simon Michael
rss2irc is an irc bot created by Don Stewart to watch rss feeds and announce new items on irc. I have been tweaking and testing it for a while, and have taken up the maintainer reins. I'm happy to announce release 0.3, with: - reliable http networking - irc flood protection - better error

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: rss2irc 0.4 released

2009-09-26 Thread Simon Michael
I have released rss2irc 0.4, with some improvements from the field: - fix a problem connecting with irc.quakenet.org (Radoslav Dorcik) - feed polling now recovers from transient failures - can poll a local file: uri as well as remote uris - more robust new item detection, with some alternate

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: rss2irc 0.4 released

2009-09-27 Thread Simon Michael
Whoops, bugfixes: Release notes for 0.4.2, 2009-09-27: - fix a bug where every --max-items-th announcement was skipped Release notes for 0.4.1, 2009-09-26: - fix release notes ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] website update how-to

2008-08-03 Thread Simon Michael
Ketil Malde wrote: (Anybody with write access to the front page who can make a note of minimum version required to 'darcs get' the repository?) I've submitted a patch. For reference, here's how to change the website: 0. get yourself a working darcs 2 by installing a binary or building the

[Haskell-cafe] Re: FunGEn

2008-08-30 Thread Simon Michael
Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: L.S., I found the Functional Game Engine FunGEn on the web: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~haskell/fungen/download.html It looks useful, but since it hasn't been maintained for a long time, it doesn't compile. Is there a newer version I can download? Hi Henk-Jan, yes,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock + Hoogle == Javadoc on steroids

2008-09-27 Thread Simon Michael
Taking this to haskell-cafe.. http://joyful.com/repos/darcs-sm/api-doc is a mashup of haddock, hoogle and hscolour (and darcsweb, darcs-graph - see http://joyful.com/repos). It's rough but quite useful - a few minutes here gave me a much better understanding of the big picture of darcs code. By

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Version 0.4.3 of happs-tutorial is a HAppS job board, done in HAppS.

2008-09-29 Thread Simon Michael
This is looking very useful. Thanks! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock + Hoogle == Javadoc on steroids

2008-09-29 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Neil.. my apologies, my nightly cron script clobbered it. Please try now, same url: http://joyful.com/repos/darcs-sm/api-doc You should see three panes with hoogle in the lower left. The answer is to add a line similar to: @haddock

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock + Hoogle == Javadoc on steroids

2008-09-29 Thread Simon Michael
that one day cabal will pass some --hoogle-extra flags or something to haddock, but I've not yet decided how packages should specify where they live - if you have any suggestions do let me know. Will do.. I've yet to come to grips with cabal, still in makefile land as yet.. For your example

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Interesting new user perspective

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Michael
[4] http://www.crsr.net/Programming_Languages/SoftwareTools/ch6.html Hi Tommy, I had never seen this before. It nicely fills a gap, and I really like the format and the writing. Bookmarked. Thanks! -Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell newbie indentation query.

2008-10-15 Thread Simon Michael
Does that help? It helps me a lot. I never clearly understood that there are these two different layout modes in my code (coddled by haskell-mode!) This will cut down some more guesswork. Thanks! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell newbie indentation query.

2008-10-15 Thread Simon Michael
I'm trying that one now. Thanks for the tip! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.1, command-line accounting tool

2008-10-15 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce the first release of hledger, a command-line accounting tool similar to John Wiegley's c++ ledger. hledger generates simple ledger-compatible transaction account balance reports from a plain text ledger file. It's simple to use, at least for techies. This has been my

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hledger 0.1, command-line accounting tool

2008-10-15 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks Jason! Glad you liked it. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ledger manual available

2008-10-16 Thread Simon Michael
From: Simon Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 16, 2008 11:36:15 AM PDT To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ledger manual available This seems to have fallen off the ledger site: the latest ledger manual in easily-browsable form. To be clear, this documents

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell newbie indentation query.

2008-10-16 Thread Simon Michael
Basically it has a more accurate haskell parser, and it has a simpler way of cycling through possible indentations: TAB moves to the right and BACKSPACE to the left. Unfortunately, it can sometimes fail to parse what's in the buffer, get balky and event prevent you typing anything at all. I

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.2 released

2008-11-23 Thread Simon Michael
* add a --verbose/-v flag, use it to show more test-running detail * includes 43 tests Contributors: * Simon Michael * Tim Docker ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] latest Hood ?

2008-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
Hugo Pacheco wrote: The library also features the visualization of the intermediate data structure of hylomorphisms with GHood. I hadn't come across GHood and Hood before, and they look quite a useful addition to the toolbox. http://www.haskell.org/hood says The current released version of

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Projects that depend on the vty package?

2008-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Corey.. I noticed this thread via Haskell Weekly News. Corey O'Connor wrote: For further development of the vty package I'm really only paying attention to the requirements that fall out of the Yi project. Are there any other projects that depend on the vty package? Why yes! I just used it

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Projects that depend on the vty package?

2008-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
I found it easier to get started with the (h/nano)curses libs. From your I meant: easier THAN the curses libs. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: latest Hood ?

2008-12-06 Thread Simon Michael
Hugo, I thought this Hood stuff is so old, there's no point checking hackage. Silly me! I did cabal update; cabal install GHood on this mac and tried your example: As an example, just import Debug.Observe (the GHood one), run ghci and type runO $ print $ (length . observe List Int

[Haskell-cafe] money type ?

2007-07-12 Thread Simon Michael
Good day all, my budding ledger program could not balance transactions exactly because of rounding error with Double. I *think* I got it working better with Rational (it was late). Another suggestion from #haskell was to multiply all money by 100. I'm tracking multiple currencies/commodities

[Haskell-cafe] Re: money type ?

2007-07-13 Thread Simon Michael
Thanks, all - very interesting indeed! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Frustrating experience of a wannabe contributor

2007-07-18 Thread Simon Michael
Hi Andreas - very good problem report, thanks. I have just cleaned up the archive links at http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Mailing_lists a bit. I added the ever-excellent gmane and an overview of all archives. I think some of the archive descriptive text is no longer needed, but I stopped

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Frustrating experience of a wannabe contributor

2007-07-18 Thread Simon Michael
You can even post via gmane. Tip: for more powerful searching, use Thunderbird + gmane's NNTP interface. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.3 released

2009-01-17 Thread Simon Michael
Contributors: * Simon Michael * Nick Ingolia * Tim Docker * Corey O'Connor the vty team Stats: * Known errors: 1 * Tests: 58 * Lines of non-test code: 2123 Installation hledger requires GHC. It is known to build with 6.8 and 6.10. If you have cabal-install, do

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: hledger 0.3 released

2009-01-18 Thread Simon Michael
On 1/18/09 9:39 AM, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: I was interested in actually using this for real, but unfortunately it seems like you have a dependency on the unix package. Would it be possible to use something portable (specifically to windows) instead? Darn, thanks for the heads up. I guess

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