What haskell really needs is a big ' hit' where someone shows how powerful
haskell is in some environment.
Ruby had RoR, which is what splurged the language into the open
On 22/08/2010 3:46 PM, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote:
Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Saturday 21 August 2010
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were
hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After
all, how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two
centuries?) But
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
(Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these
things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already
experts on the subject haven't been able to fix it yet, it must be
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
(Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these
things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already
experts on the
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
them? Or is it just two blokes in their spare time? (And, more
On Saturday 21 August 2010 14:57:26, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
them? Or is it
Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.de writes:
On Saturday 21 August 2010 14:57:26, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
other big projects. Do they really
On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
A Bazillion is an imaginary number meant to indicate something extremely
large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazillion#-illion
Yes, but 'extremely large' numbers mean different things, depending on
whether we talk about for
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Since the population of the planet is roughly 6 Billion, I would guess
that Andrew is under the miscomprehension that aliens make up the vast
majority of Haskell users.
Let's face it, Haskell *does* look like a technology invented by an
alien intelligence
I wonder... How many people are actually working on Cabal?
When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were
hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After all,
how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two centuries?)
But now it
Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
A Bazillion is an imaginary number meant to indicate something extremely
large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazillion#-illion
Yes, but 'extremely large' numbers mean different things, depending on
On 19 August 2010 21:15, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Daniel Fischer wrote:
Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
Quite cool that :)
It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to
Duncan Coutts duncan.cou...@googlemail.com writes:
On 19 August 2010 21:15, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Daniel Fischer wrote:
Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
Quite cool
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
Quite cool that :)
It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to do, but this is the first time
I've ever seen it happen. I don't know
wren ng thornton wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
I guess I just figured that since Cabal is used by hundreds of
millions of people every single day, any little glitches I might have
come across have already been seen by at least 1,000 people before me
(and hence, the developers already know about
Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com writes:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Yup, there's a ticket for it.
In fact, there appears to be a ticket for every single thing I
originally mentioned. And they're all ancient tickets too. So,
yeah... nothing to do here.
(Unless you're suggesting that
Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:13:48, Andrew Coppin wrote:
On that note, I just remembered something else: During the course of
playing with all this Cabal stuff, I discovered that I had somehow
acquired a global package index. As in, an HTML file that links to the
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
On 19 August 2010 03:13, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays
Duncan Coutts wrote:
On 18 August 2010 18:13, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Then again, all the links were broken anyway. They all had paths like
C:\Program Files\Haskell\...whatever, and Mozilla apparently expects them
to say file://C:/Program Files/Haskell/...whatever.
Andrew Coppin wrote:
I guess I just figured that since Cabal is used by hundreds of millions
of people every single day, any little glitches I might have come across
have already been seen by at least 1,000 people before me (and hence,
the developers already know about it and just haven't had
On Thursday 19 August 2010 22:15:59, Andrew Coppin wrote:
It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to do, but this is the first
time I've ever seen it happen. I don't know what particularly I did to
make this happen, and now it seems to be gone, so...
Hm, I just renamed my
It sounds to me like your life would be a lot easier if you knew about
cabal-install's root-cmd configuration parameter! Open your
.cabal/config file and uncomment and set:
root-cmd: sudo
I didn't know about this either. As an aside, is the cabal config
file documented at all? I haven't
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote:
I was trying to turn on --global by default
user-install: False
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
Fair enough. However, having documentation off by default is just
annoying...
On that note, I just
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:13:48, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
Fair enough. However, having documentation
On 18 August 2010 18:13, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Then again, all the links were broken anyway. They all had paths like
C:\Program Files\Haskell\...whatever, and Mozilla apparently expects them
to say file://C:/Program Files/Haskell/...whatever. It kept whining that
On 19 August 2010 03:13, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
Fair enough. However, having
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Andrew Coppin
andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote:
The amusing part is, if you sudo cabal
install so it has permission to put the installed files into place, it then
uses root's configuration file instead. *sigh* Well anyway, I managed to
work around that. But...
And so today, just for giggles, I tried to get Sifflet to work. Along
the way, I encountered a number of... glitches, if you will.
First of all, I tried to get it to work on Windows. I fired up a new
Windows VM and installed Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0. It seems that
(finally) this includes
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