Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Daryoush Mehrtash
Any idea how one might implement a multi note map and reduce network? Lets assume I have network of nodes that act as master and salve. How can I take a user code (containing his map reduce logic) and actually run it on different nodes? Daryoush 2009/2/24 Galchin, Vasili vigalc...@gmail.com

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John Lato
Brandon Allbery wrote: On 2009 Feb 21, at 20:47, Jonathan Cast wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 07:25 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote: Not showing platform-specific packages by default *might* make package writers more likely to develop cross-platform packages. We've heard many times someone say, I

[Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Victor Nazarov
I wonder what software licence I can use to release my application. I've developed some education tool with the following dependencies: % ghci Main.hs GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer ... linking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal: local documentation

2009-02-25 Thread Martijn van Steenbergen
Duncan Coutts wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:42 +0100, Svein Ove Aas wrote: 2009/2/24 Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com: Just pass '--enable-documentation' to 'cabal install'. On *nix they're generated at ~/.cabal/share/doc. Or edit ~/.cabal/config and set the documentation key to True

[Haskell-cafe] Re: forall ST monad

2009-02-25 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Ryan Ingram wrote: It believe that it's true that ((forall a. t a) - t') does not entail (exists a. t a - t') in constructivist logic, but I can't come up with a proof off the top of my head. Intuitively, to construct a value of type (E t t') you need to fix an a, and I don't think it's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:22 +0300, Victor Nazarov wrote: I wonder what software licence I can use to release my application. I've developed some education tool with the following dependencies: % ghci Main.hs GHCi, version 6.10.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
Vasili, What do you mean? Googles MapReduce is already a published / well understood concept so no reverse engineering is needed. If you are asking about pre-existing implementations, there is at least one [1] but only for reference, not speed. If you are asking about community interest, great

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Eugene Kirpichov
I've read this article too, and I must say that it is indeed a very interesting and exciting read, both in terms of understanding MapReduce and its capabilities somewhat better, and in terms of beholding the beauty of Haskell. It is not exactly reverse engineering, but it is expressing the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 14:33 schrieb Duncan Coutts: Note that some people will tell you that by a strict interpretation of the LGPL that statically linked Haskell libs under that license are a pain in the backside. When we decided on that license for gtk2hs that was not our intention.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:23 +, John Lato wrote: 4. Cross-platform concerns are something that responsible developers need to consider, just like localization and i18n. I.e., why *shouldn't* you think of that? Sorry, wtf? I have a *responsibility* to design software for a miserably

[Colin Paul Adams] Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Wolfgang == Wolfgang Jeltsch g9ks1...@acme.softbase.org writes: Wolfgang Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 14:33 schrieb Duncan Wolfgang Coutts: Note that some people will tell you that by a strict interpretation of the LGPL that statically linked Haskell libs under that

[Haskell-cafe] subscription problems for projects.haskell.org mailing list

2009-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello, I created a mailing list for Grapefruit on the Haskell Community Server (grapefr...@projects.haskell.org). If I try to subscribe to it, I receive a confirmation e-mail but my answers to this e-mail seem to get ignored. Does anyone have an idea what’s wrong here? Best wishes, Wolfgang

Re: [Haskell-cafe] subscription problems for projects.haskell.org mailing list

2009-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 17:05 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: Hello, I created a mailing list for Grapefruit on the Haskell Community Server (grapefr...@projects.haskell.org). If I try to subscribe to it, I receive a confirmation e-mail but my answers to this e-mail seem to get ignored. Does

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Jonathan Cast wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:23 +, John Lato wrote: 4. Cross-platform concerns are something that responsible developers need to consider, just like localization and i18n. I.e., why *shouldn't* you think of that? Sorry, wtf? I have a *responsibility* to design

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Galchin, Maybe you are asking not only about remote execution, but also mobility of code. This is a problem that is previous to mapReduce, since mapReduce assumes that all the code (and the data) is in place in the respective nodes. In fact, the distribution of resources in order to efficiently

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote: Brandon Allbery wrote: I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm writing a program it's for Unix *and* requires POSIX APIxs, and even if it could apply to Windows the program needed there would be very significantly different.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Robert Greayer
Colin Paul Adams wrote: But IF there is no difference between LGPL and GPL for Haskell programs, then the licensing of gtk2hs as LGPL is just a smokescreen - it is effectively GPL, so you have to license your program as GPL. Which I'm all in favour of :-) I actually don't think this is 100%

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Rick R
I agree. A distributed database could be made as usable as a standard RDBMS by offering an interface by which you supply a map/reduce pair of functions and a list (range?) of keys. This could be easily implemented with a database such as Scalaris, in which the Chord algorithm is responsible for

[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi, I want to read a file using Data.Binary, and I want to read the file strictly - i.e. when I leave the read file I want to guarantee the handle is closed. The reason is that (possibly immediately after) I need to write to the file. The following is the magic I need to use - is it all

[Haskell-cafe] package code duplication

2009-02-25 Thread Louis Wasserman
There was a question recently about being allowed to get into package internals, and I had a question. I want to use uvector's stream internals in ways that the exposed methods don't permit, but I don't especially want to use another package (e.g. vector, which does expose its internals) or

[Haskell-cafe] Re: package code duplication

2009-02-25 Thread Don Stewart
wasserman.louis: There was a question recently about being allowed to get into package internals, and I had a question. I want to use uvector's stream internals in ways that the exposed methods don't permit, but I don't especially want to use another package (e.g. vector, which does expose

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Felipe Lessa
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote:        src - decodeFile _make/_make        Map.size mp `seq` performGC Shouldn't you use rnf[1]? Also, there seems to be binary-strict on Hackage, but I don't know if it is being maintained anymore. HTH, [1]

[Haskell-cafe] Memoization local to a function

2009-02-25 Thread Dusan Kolar
Dear all, I have a function a computation of which is quite expensive, it is recursively dependent on itself with respect to some other function values - we can roughly model its behaviour with fib function (returns n-th number of Fibonacci's sequence). Unfortunately, it is not fib, it is

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Memoization local to a function

2009-02-25 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Dusan Kolar wrote: Nevertheless, local version does not work. Restructure your code like this: fibL m = let allfib = 0:1:[allfib!!n + allfib!!(n+1) | n - [0..]] in allfib !! m fibL = let allfib = 0:1:[allfib!!n + allfib!!(n+1) | n - [0..]] in \m - allfib !! m i.e. move

Re: [Haskell-cafe] subscription problems for projects.haskell.org mailing list

2009-02-25 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 17:15 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 17:05 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch: Hello, I created a mailing list for Grapefruit on the Haskell Community Server (grapefr...@projects.haskell.org). If I try to subscribe to it, I receive a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to read a file using Data.Binary, and I want to read the file strictly - i.e. when I leave the read file I want to guarantee the handle is closed. The reason is that (possibly immediately after) I need to

[Haskell-cafe] cabal install profiling and documentation

2009-02-25 Thread Ben
i've gone and cabal installed a lot of packages, but now i want to go back and install their profiling libraries and documentation. is there an easy way of doing this, short of reinstalling all of them (in the proper dependency order)? ben ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2009/2/25 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com And it would solve a lot of problem: scalability, system re-configuraition and installation: just by adding or removing nodes at runtime.. heavy numerical computations are also good candidates. 2009/2/25 Rick R rick.richard...@gmail.com I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] forall ST monad

2009-02-25 Thread Kim-Ee Yeoh
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: Now, (forall a. T[a]) - S is clearly true while exists a. (T[a] - S) should be nonsense: having one example of a marble that is either red or blue does in no way imply that all of them are, at least constructively. (It is true classically, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] forall ST monad

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:18 -0800, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote: Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: Now, (forall a. T[a]) - S is clearly true while exists a. (T[a] - S) should be nonsense: having one example of a marble that is either red or blue does in no way imply that all of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] MapReduce reverse engineered

2009-02-25 Thread Daryoush Mehrtash
since mapReduce assumes that all the code (and the data) is in place in the respective nodes. As far as I can tell, the Hadoop, the open source implementation of map reduce, doesn't require your map reduce code to be in all nodes. It copies the jar files of the your application to the nodes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:47:16 am Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 14:33 schrieb Duncan Coutts: Note that some people will tell you that by a strict interpretation of the LGPL that statically linked Haskell libs under that license are a pain in the backside.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Magnus Therning
Conrad Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:47:16 am Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 14:33 schrieb Duncan Coutts: Note that some people will tell you that by a strict interpretation of the LGPL that statically linked Haskell libs under that license are a pain in

[Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell under OsX

2009-02-25 Thread Cristiano Paris
Hi, I'm planning to purchase a MacBookPro so I'm wondering how well Haskell is supported under this platform. Thanks, Cristiano ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell under OsX

2009-02-25 Thread Ross Mellgren
I use Haskell under OSX only. I find it very well supported. -Ross On Feb 25, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Cristiano Paris wrote: Hi, I'm planning to purchase a MacBookPro so I'm wondering how well Haskell is supported under this platform. Thanks, Cristiano

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell under OsX

2009-02-25 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
I've got an iMac; ghc from MacPorts seems to work fine. On 25 Feb 2009, at 22:37, Cristiano Paris wrote: Hi, I'm planning to purchase a MacBookPro so I'm wondering how well Haskell is supported under this platform. Thanks, Cristiano ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell under OsX

2009-02-25 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 11:37:15 am Cristiano Paris wrote: Hi, I'm planning to purchase a MacBookPro so I'm wondering how well Haskell is supported under this platform. Thanks, Cristiano GHC on linux/ppc is not very well supported, but since all new macbooks are intel that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Memoization local to a function

2009-02-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Dusan Kolar ko...@fit.vutbr.cz wrote: I have a function a computation of which is quite expensive, it is recursively dependent on itself with respect to some other function values - we can roughly model its behaviour with fib function (returns n-th number of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell under OsX

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Peebles
The one thing that isn't supported in GHC on Mac OS is the generation of 64-bit code (better if you have lots of RAM you want to take advantage of, and also has a lot more independent registers for tight loops), but with any luck that will change soon (I've been trying to get it to work). Cheers,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Memoization local to a function

2009-02-25 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Luke Palmer wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Dusan Kolar ko...@fit.vutbr.cz wrote:  I have a function a computation of which is quite expensive, it is recursively dependent on itself with respect to some other function values - we can roughly

[Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Hercek
Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: I want to repeat what I’ve said earlier on this list: For Haskell, there is no real difference between LGPL and GPL, as far as I understand it. If you don’t want to force the users of your library to use an open source license for their work then use BSD3 or a similar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek pher...@gmail.com wrote: * An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for the purpose of recompiling with a newer version of the LGPL library.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John Lato
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote: Brandon Allbery wrote: I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm writing a program it's for Unix *and* requires POSIX APIxs, and even if it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Tristan Seligmann
* Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com [2009-02-25 23:15:24 +0100]: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek pher...@gmail.com wrote: * An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for

[Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Hercek
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Peter Hercek pher...@gmail.com wrote: * An LGPL library will force commercial users to release their source code only to the users of their program (which already bought it) and only for the purpose of recompiling with a newer

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
So that is interesting. If you don't distribute a program that makes use of LPGL libs (e.g. a downloadable EXE), but you provide a remote view (in this case a web) on a server that runs that program, then the license does not apply... Oh well I should just let the lawyers look into all these

[Haskell-cafe] differences between Data.Array and Data.Vector

2009-02-25 Thread Manlio Perillo
Hi. In Hackage there are some packages named *array*, and others named *vector*. What are the differences? Is available a guide to the various data structures available in Haskell? Thanks Manlio Perillo ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote: Brandon Allbery wrote: I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm writing a program it's for Unix

[Haskell-cafe] Re: base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: So that is interesting. If you don't distribute a program that makes use of LPGL libs (e.g. a downloadable EXE), but you provide a remote view (in this case a web) on a server that runs that program, then the license does not apply... Oh well I

[Haskell-cafe] popularity context with Cabal

2009-02-25 Thread Manlio Perillo
Hi. Debian some time ago introduced the popularity context, to find the most installed/used packages: http://popcon.debian.org/ Is it possible to do something similar with Cabal? From popularity-context FAQ: For each package, popularity-contest looks at the most recently used (based on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John Lato
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 10:23 +, John Lato wrote: 4.  Cross-platform concerns are something that responsible developers need to consider, just like localization and i18n.  I.e., why *shouldn't* you think of that?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] base-4 + gtk2hs-0.10.0 licensing

2009-02-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:47 +0100, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Mittwoch, 25. Februar 2009 14:33 schrieb Duncan Coutts: Note that some people will tell you that by a strict interpretation of the LGPL that statically linked Haskell libs under that license are a pain in the backside. When we

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:15 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi, I want to read a file using Data.Binary, and I want to read the file strictly - i.e. when I leave the read file I want to guarantee the handle is closed. The reason is that (possibly immediately after) I need to write to the file.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: you should consider that your unix-dependent software will never reach over 80% of the computer users available. Now it's me... wtf? Why should I care? If those users are not even willing to bend their little finger to safe me from breaking my back attempting

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John Lato
Achim Schneider wrote: John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: On 2009 Feb 25, at 5:23, John Lato wrote: Brandon Allbery wrote: I have to second this; I'm a Unix sysadmin, 98% of the time if I'm writing a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
John Lato jwl...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't see anything wrong with using Hoogle to increase awareness (although I would appreciate it if platform-specific packages were searched as an option). You won't hear me argue against it, in fact, I argued in favour of it. Increasing awareness of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John A. De Goes
It's a chicken-egg thing. A Linux or OS X developer tries Haskell and finds he can write useful programs right away, with a minimum of fuss. But a Windows user tries Haskell and finds he has access to very few of the really good libraries, and even the cross-platform libraries won't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 17:54 -0700, John A. De Goes wrote: It's a chicken-egg thing. A Linux or OS X developer tries Haskell and finds he can write useful programs right away, with a minimum of fuss. But a Windows user tries Haskell and finds he has access to very few of the really good

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John A. De Goes
I don't think it's that black and white. At the lower end, when the language is controlled by a few, there's not much innovation poured into the language or libraries, and there are no tools to support development. As the community grows, you see much more innovation in language and

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net wrote: Personally, I'd be happy to see that explosion of innovation in the library and tool spaces, even if it means the language itself stops evolving (for the most part). It will make it a lot easier do use Haskell commercially, and the innovators in

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
Achim Schneider bars...@web.de wrote: whatever comes first. uhhh, make that whatever comes last -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for copyright history. All rights reserved. Copying, hiring, renting, performance and/or quoting of this signature

Re: [Haskell-cafe] jhc speed

2009-02-25 Thread Andrea Vezzosi
2009/2/22 Luke Palmer lrpal...@gmail.com: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 8:15 AM, John Meacham j...@repetae.net wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:36:34PM +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote: Would it be possible to separate the frontend (Haskell to Core) and backend (Core to machine code) from the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread John A. De Goes
The problem is that PL research is probably not going to stop evolving in our lifetimes. Yes, that research needs a venue, but why should it be Haskell? Haskell is a good language and it's time to start benefiting from the research that's already gone into it. That means some tradeoffs.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] jhc speed

2009-02-25 Thread Bernie Pope
On 23/02/2009, at 2:22 AM, Luke Palmer wrote: By the way, coming up pretty soon, I will need a desugared annotated Haskell for Dana. If anybody has something like this in the works, I'd love to help with it. If it does not exist by the time I need it, I will make it, so if anyone is

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hoogle and Network.Socket

2009-02-25 Thread Achim Schneider
John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net wrote: The problem is that PL research is probably not going to stop evolving in our lifetimes. Yes, that research needs a venue, but why should it be Haskell? Haskell is a good language and it's time to start benefiting from the research that's already gone

Re: [Haskell-cafe] jhc speed

2009-02-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Bernie Pope bj...@csse.unimelb.edu.auwrote: On 23/02/2009, at 2:22 AM, Luke Palmer wrote: By the way, coming up pretty soon, I will need a desugared annotated Haskell for Dana. If anybody has something like this in the works, I'd love to help with it. If

Re: [Haskell-cafe] popularity context with Cabal

2009-02-25 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 25, at 18:06, Manlio Perillo wrote: Debian some time ago introduced the popularity context, to find the most installed/used packages: http://popcon.debian.org/ Is it possible to do something similar with Cabal? I believe that's a planned feature for Hackage. -- brandon s.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
Neil Mitchell wrote: Hi, I want to read a file using Data.Binary, and I want to read the file strictly - i.e. when I leave the read file I want to guarantee the handle is closed. The reason is that (possibly immediately after) I need to write to the file. The following is the magic I need

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, strict reading

2009-02-25 Thread Bertram Felgenhauer
I wrote: With binary 0.5, Or binary 0.4.3 and later. Bertram ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe