[Haskell-cafe] blanket license for Haskell Platform?

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Y. Kow
So I'm combining Haskell software with some non-free/closed source work. I was wondering what sort of effort it would take to organise a blanket license for everything in the Haskell Platform, and whether it would be worthwhile to anybody. Here's my use case: - I am combining my Haskell [:-)]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] blanket license for Haskell Platform?

2011-10-25 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 21:46:21 +1100, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: - My user is concerned that a large number of having a large number of  individual licenses even though textually identical modulo author,  date, etc would mean a big hassle getting their lawyers and their  user's lawyers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal license check?

2011-10-12 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 17:24:18 +0200, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: I'd like a tool that takes a .cabal file as input and produces a list of all dependencies (recursive, all the way to 'base') and some metadata for each (most importantly, LICENSE) cab[0] can do that, for installed packages:

[Haskell-cafe] cabal license check?

2011-10-10 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi all, I'd like a tool that takes a .cabal file as input and produces a list of all dependencies (recursive, all the way to 'base') and some metadata for each (most importantly, LICENSE) Does this already exist, or will I to write it myself? I notice that there's a patch by Trevor Elliot to

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 6

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Parallel Haskell Digest === Edition 6 2011-10-06 Hello Haskellers! This edition of the Parallel Haskell Digest kicks off with some [warm feelings][n1] from BioHaskeller Ketil Malde Blessing of the day goes to the authors of threadscope. In fact, let me look it up: Donnie

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 6

2011-10-06 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Attached are the png files I refer to in this post. Check out the blog version to see it all in context http://www.well-typed.com/blog/60 On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 16:58:47 +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote: First, the bigger picture: why do we have another way of doing parallel programming in Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New: A French translation of Learn You A Haskell for Great Good!

2011-09-21 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 00:00:26 +0200, Valentin ROBERT wrote: http://lyah.haskell.fr Excellent http://haskell.fr Since you're starting from fresh, it would be great if the wiki were running Gitit instead of Mediawiki. Advantages: - Markdown is used in many places - You can have a Git/Darcs

Re: [Haskell-cafe] darcs checkin history?? forgot ....

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 17:00:08 +1000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:    If I have a URL for a darcs repository, how can I get a listing of activity ... mainly checkin history e.g. name, date timestamp? darcs get repo cd repo-name darcs changes Alternatively, darcs changes --repo

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 5

2011-08-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Parallel Haskell Digest === Edition 5 2011-08-31 Hello Haskellers! Eric here, reprising my role as Parallel Haskell Digester. Many thanks to Nick for good stewardship of the digest and nice new directions for the future. This month we have Erlang PhDs (and a postdoc), new

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal-1.10.1.0 and bytestring-0.9.2.0 hackage problem.

2011-08-25 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Thanks! I was scratching my head at this On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 16:42:58 +0200, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: 1. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring is now broken. 2. The downloadeble package index (00-index.tar) still contains the bytestring-0.9.2.0 cabal file, so the problem

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell lib in non-Haskell program

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi all, I'd like to share my experiences packaging a Haskell program so that it can be used as a library by a non-Haskell application. I hope somebody might be able to (A) confirm that I'm doing the right thing or better still (B) suggest some corrections and/or simplifications. My objectives

[Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell on Mac (Was: Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics)

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:18:42 +0100, Andrew Butterfield wrote: Alas - I have yet to be able to build it on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) For what it's worth, I'm still using wxHaskell on MacOS X (also Snow Leopoard) The tricky bits are that you have to 1. install wxWidgets by hand, being

Re: [Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell on Mac (Was: Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics)

2011-05-18 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:06:02 -0400, Tom Murphy wrote: Is there a way to build an installer that would make this process easier? I've sent a pull request to the maintainer of homebrew. Hopefully it should then just be a matter of brew install wxmac Homebrew's wxWidgets already builds 32 bit,

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 2

2011-05-11 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Parallel Haskell Digest === Edition 2 2011-05-11 Hello Haskellers! Welcome to the second edition of the Parallel Haskell Digest, bringing you news, discussions and tasters of parallelism and concurrency in Haskell. The digest is made possible by the Parallel GHC project.

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell User Group starter kit

2011-04-26 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi all, We may be coming to a time where we start to see Haskell User Groups or Functional Programming clubs popping up all the over the place. Maybe it's a good time to put our heads together and figure out what we can do to nurture these groups, to keep them going strong rather than fizzling

[Haskell-cafe] parallel-haskell mailing list

2011-04-14 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi everybody, I thought I should point out that there is a mailing list dedicated to parallelism and concurrency in Haskell. The group exists to bring together the various groups in the Haskell community that are working on parallelism. It is intended to provide some visibility into the various

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 1

2011-03-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Parallel Haskell Digest === Edition 1 2011-03-31 http://www.well-typed.com/blog/52 Hello Haskellers! If you're in the mood for a HWN chaser, I'd like to introduce the first Parallel Haskell Digest, a newsletter aiming to show off all the work that's going on using parallelism

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [wxhaskell-users] problems using macports?

2010-09-09 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi Doaitse, On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 17:38:40 +0200, S. Doaitse Swierstra wrote: I am in my yearly fightto get a working combination of operating system (Snow Leopard), compiler version (6.12) , wxWidgets and wxHaskell on my Mac . After deleting most of my stuff, starting afresh, hours of

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint 4 report

2010-03-28 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi everybody, Here's our report from ZuriHac. It's been also posted to the Darcs blog with a couple of photos stolen from Johan's blog, some Darcs rebase scribbling and a screenshot of Darcsden's intriguing fork-tracking feature...

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Anyone up for Google SoC 2010?

2010-02-04 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On 31 Jan 2010, Malcolm Wallace pointed out: Google has announced that the Summer of Code programme will be running again this year. If haskell.org people would like to take part again this year, then we need volunteers: The Darcs Team would certainly be delighted to participate in GSoC

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Darcs fundraising 2010 - send us to ZuriHac! (only $957 more by 15 Feb)

2010-01-26 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi everybody, Here's the update for our second week of fundraising. We've managed to raise $1043. We're now halfway there! That's only $957 to go by the 15th of February. Many thanks to everybody who has made a donation so far. If you're still thinking of helping out, now is a good time!

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Darcs fundraising 2010 - send us to ZuriHac! (only $1333 more by 15 Feb)

2010-01-19 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi everybody, I'm just writing to thank everybody for your donations so far to the Darcs 2010 travel fund, and to give a little progress update. Thanks to your generous contributions, we've managed to raise $667, putting us 1/3 of the way there! We only have $1333 to go, that's a little over

[Haskell-cafe] Darcs fundraising 2010 - send us to ZuriHac! ($2000 by 15 Feb)

2010-01-09 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, Since 2008, the Darcs Team has made a big push to find hacking time. We've been streamlining our patch approval processes, running Google Summer of Code projects and holding bi-annual hacking sprints. These efforts are starting to pay off, but we're not quite there yet and we

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell-Cafe Digest, Vol 74, Issue 53

2009-10-29 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi Iain, I'm taking the liberty of cc'ing wxhaskell-users. Iain said: I was trying to go through some of the wxHaskell examples, and they wouldn't work on my (Tiger) mac. Same thing happened with a few other wx apps I downloaded from Hackage. A bit of a rummage on the internet turned

[Haskell-cafe] Edinburgh Saturday Meetup - we are here! (Henderson's)

2009-08-29 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, Just for info, we are currently at Henderson's Cafe on Hanover St (just around the corner from the RCPE). If anybody needs to get in touch: Eric - +44 75187 28483 Dougal - +44 7814 412539 More details on the wiki if we move: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Hac7 -- Eric Kow

[Haskell-cafe] tomorrow: Edinburgh Meetup (Sat 29 Aug) and Hack Day (Sun 30 Aug)

2009-08-28 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, Last minute reminder: We will be having a Hack Day in Edinburgh on Sunday 30 August (ICFP venue). That's this weekend! For the interested, we will also be meeting up the day before 09:30 Saturday 29 August just outside the RCPE (ie. the ICFP venue again). We'll have a quick

[Haskell-cafe] a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or git

2009-03-01 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi Günther, But since I have the ambition to become a real haskeller I was gonna make myself acquainted with darcs. Should I skip that and head straight for git? My extremely biased opinion is that you skip git and go straight for darcs ;-) Why I love darcs Git is a fine

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint #1 (report)

2008-10-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, I thought some of you might be interested in our report from the darcs hacking sprint, held on 25-26 October. See also the blog version of it at http://blog.darcs.net/2008/10/darcs-hacking-sprint-1-report.html (it has photos). So how did that darcs hacking sprint go? Well, we

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Heads Up: code.haskell.org is upgrading to darcs 2

2008-09-11 Thread Eric Y. Kow
We are upgrading /usr/bin/darcs to version 2 on the machine that hosts code.haskell.org. That means it will be used by everyone who uses ssh to push or pull from a darcs repository on code.haskell.org. Pulling via http is completely unaffected. Thanks Duncan! Now my hope is that we can

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint, venues confirmed! (25-26 October)

2008-09-06 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear darcs users and Haskell hackers, Earlier I wrote an announcement for the darcs hacking sprint on 25-26 October. Tonight, I am delighted to announce that we have two venues confirmed for the sprint and one serious offer. Venues -- We plan to host the sprint across three sites: *

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint (25-26 October)

2008-08-17 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, As Jason mentions, there has been recently been a lot of interest in darcs and an influx of new contributors. Thanks, everybody! Things are moving faster now with a few extra brains on board. We have some very ambitious plans, though and we still need all the help we can get.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs hacking sprint (25-26 October)

2008-08-17 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 21:33:17 +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote: The venues are not yet fixed, although we have some tentative offers for space in London (thanks to Ganesh) and Portland (thanks to Galois). Correction! We have a tentative offer for space near *Cambridge* (thanks to Ganesh) and to Ian

[Haskell-cafe] helping you contribute to darcs (poll results so far)

2008-08-05 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, Last Friday, I had posted a message asking how the darcs community could a better job recruiting developers to hack on darcs. Thanks for all the great responses! I am gratified by the suggestions you have offered, as well as the recent uptick in community involvement. The

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Avoiding boilerplate retrieving GetOpt cmd line args

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi, Here is a possible two part response. Not literate code, just using to distinguish code from everything else. A short answer == getFilter = getString f Markdown.pl where f (Filter s) = Just s f _ = Nothing getDateFormat = getString f %B %e, %Y

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Avoiding boilerplate retrieving GetOpt cmd line args

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Y. Kow
To anyone who followed up on this thread (hi!). I have posted the GetOpt-summary part of my message on the wiki: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GetOpt Please update it with the relevant parts of your followups, and correct any silliness. Haven't had the time to look, but I'm

Re: [Haskell-cafe] i need wxHaskell compiled for ghc 6.6.1 on Windows

2007-07-20 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi Bulat, can anyone provide wxHaskell already compiled/compilable with ghc 6.6.1 on Windows? Please try the darcs version darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell It's probably simplest to get it working with wxWidgets 2.6.4

[Haskell-cafe] New YAHT maintainer

2007-05-19 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi, I just wanted to announce that Sam Hughes will be taking over as Keeper of the YAHT. YAHT is the venerable Yet Another Haskell Tutorial. It is available both as a wikibook and as a PDF (*). The Keeper of the YAHT has the grave duty of synchronising the YAHT wikibook and tex source, and

[Haskell-cafe] Think of a monad...

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear Haskellers, In the recent HWN, I noticed a new monad metaphor by Don Stewart: Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, *but* the apples are

Re: [Haskell-cafe] YAHT bug

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi, The page says this was corrected in the wikibook, but it seems not to have been fixed in the darcs repository at haskell.org. Sorry for that. I still haven't worked out a smart way to update the darcs repository from the wikibook. I'm thinking of versioning a copy of the wiki pages with

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Writing Haskell For Dummies Or At Least For People Who Feel Like Dummies When They See The Word 'Monad'

2006-12-11 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Since people keep saying the word wikibook, I will make the obligatory mention of http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell It might not yet have the style/voice/sense of direction that we're discussing here, but maybe people might be interested in shaping that book into something really interesting?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] submenu doesn't seem to work properly in wxhaskell

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Hi, Let's transfer this to wxhaskell-users. I've attached your example as a small .lhs file and makefile. For Debian Linux, uncomment the -lwx_gtk2u_gl-2.6 line or otherwise, modify to taste. The following code doesn't seem to work properly. Either the main entry (m1/mp1) or it's sub menu

Re: [Haskell-cafe] submenu doesn't seem to work properly in wxhaskell

2006-11-15 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 23:10:44 +0100, Eric Y. Kow wrote: I've attached your example as a small .lhs file and makefile. For Debian Linux, uncomment the -lwx_gtk2u_gl-2.6 line or otherwise, modify to taste. Here are the files, really attached this time. -- Eric Kow http

Re: [wxhaskell-users] [Haskell-cafe] Announcement: new maintainers forr wxHaskell

2006-11-11 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 23:26:40 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: I suggest [EMAIL PROTECTED], the GUI task force mailing list; nothing is going on there at the moment, but it seems the most appropriate list. Hmm... I guess I'm happy just using the wxhaskell-users list for now, but if we do

[Haskell-cafe] darcs get-together tuesday evening (2006-09-19 18:00)

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Y. Kow
Dear darcs users, hackers and observers (*), We're getting together around 18:00 this Tuesday to discuss and/or hack on darcs. This will be after the ICFP sessions for that day, in Portland, Oregon, specifically the Marriott downtown waterfront LL1. David Roundy will be there, Ian Lynagh and me

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [wxhaskell-users] FW: Reviving wxHaskell

2006-08-01 Thread Eric Y. Kow
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 13:03:52 -0700, Daan Leijen wrote: One potential challenge is to find a group of testers that are willing to help compiling wxHaskell on different target systems: Windows, MacOS X, and Unix/GTK variations. I volunteer to help test on MacOS X I am happy to give