Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-03 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Samstag 03 April 2010 20:45:47 schrieb Don Stewart: > schlepptop: > > Don Stewart schrieb: > >> While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss > >> what we think the most important student projects for the summer > >> should be. > >> > >> Here's the list: > >> > >> > >> h

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-03 Thread Antoine Latter
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > schlepptop: >> Don Stewart schrieb: >>> While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss what >>> we think the most important student projects for the summer should be. >>> >>> Here's the list: >>> >>>     >>> http://donsbot.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-03 Thread Don Stewart
schlepptop: > Don Stewart schrieb: >> While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss what >> we think the most important student projects for the summer should be. >> >> Here's the list: >> >> >> http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-8-most-important-haskell-org-gsoc-

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-03 Thread Henning Thielemann
Don Stewart schrieb: While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss what we think the most important student projects for the summer should be. Here's the list: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-8-most-important-haskell-org-gsoc-projects/ Please consider appl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-03 Thread Henning Thielemann
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic schrieb: Don Stewart writes: Portability? You already have GHC on the machine, right? You don't necessarily need the GHC API to get something prototyped quickly. I meant in the sense of writing this as a tool, which will also work if the user prefers JHC, YHC, et

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-02 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 2 April 2010 07:22, Twan van Laarhoven wrote: > > As a simple approximation, you could consider functions without type > signatures to have changed if their implementation or any function they > depend on has changed. > Ah, too much work. Having libraries where the exported functions have si

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Twan van Laarhoven
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: I've been thinking of doing something similar for a year or so now, but there's one big problem that I can think of: how to deal with functions that don't have an explicit type signature in the source. My understanding is that to derive these signatures at "checking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don Stewart writes: > > Portability? You already have GHC on the machine, right? You don't > > necessarily need the GHC API to get something prototyped quickly. > > I meant in the sense of writing this as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Don Stewart writes: > Portability? You already have GHC on the machine, right? You don't > necessarily need the GHC API to get something prototyped quickly. I meant in the sense of writing this as a tool, which will also work if the user prefers JHC, YHC, etc. over GHC. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > Don Stewart writes: > > Well, you can 'script' GHC: > > [snip] > > > To at least get the fully qualified types exported from a module. > > Which increases the portability _how_ precisely? :p > Portability? You already have GHC on the machine, right? You don't necessarily ne

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Don Stewart writes: > Well, you can 'script' GHC: [snip] > To at least get the fully qualified types exported from a module. Which increases the portability _how_ precisely? :p -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Don Stewart
ivan.miljenovic: > Stephen Tetley writes: > > I had a little experiment along the lines of "A Package Versioning > > Policy Checker" a few months ago. I got as far as using > > Haskell-src-exts to extract module export list, but didn't work out > > out a hashing scheme for the actual type signatur

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Stephen Tetley writes: > I had a little experiment along the lines of "A Package Versioning > Policy Checker" a few months ago. I got as far as using > Haskell-src-exts to extract module export list, but didn't work out > out a hashing scheme for the actual type signatures. I've been thinking of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Stephen Tetley
Hello All I had a little experiment along the lines of "A Package Versioning Policy Checker" a few months ago. I got as far as using Haskell-src-exts to extract module export list, but didn't work out out a hashing scheme for the actual type signatures. The project is minimal, but it does have co

[Haskell-cafe] The 8 Most Important GSoC Projects

2010-04-01 Thread Don Stewart
While at ZuriHac, a few of us GSoC mentors got together to discuss what we think the most important student projects for the summer should be. Here's the list: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-8-most-important-haskell-org-gsoc-projects/ Please consider applying to work on these t