[Haskell-community] Fwd: Mirroring on Google groups

2016-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Hi all, Haskell-cafe is mirrored on Google Groups at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/haskell-cafe, as far as I can tell. That enables anybody to join that ML and participate in existing discussions. Would such mirroring be an option here too? Cheers, -- Paolo G. Giarrusso - Ph.D. Student,

[Haskell-community] Is it reasonable to poll the community on this ML?

2016-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Replying to https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-community/2016-August/000127.html (I can't reply properly otherwise as I just subscribed): > > 2) This really just boils down to the political gridlock between HP and > > Stack. Unless the actual parties involved in that gridlock can hammer o

Re: [Haskell-community] Is it reasonable to poll the community on this ML?

2016-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 29 August 2016 at 17:39, Kosyrev Serge wrote: > Gershom B writes: >>> I might understand the concern about archiving, but haskell-cafe >>> solves that. And "the committee can't be expected to follow >>> discussions" and "is empowered to act" does sound like "the committee >>> can't be expected

Re: [Haskell-community] Is it reasonable to poll the community on this ML?

2016-08-29 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 29 August 2016 at 17:21, Gershom B wrote: > On August 29, 2016 at 11:15:19 AM, Paolo Giarrusso > (paolo.giarru...@uni-tuebingen.de) wrote: > >> If the poll was announced there, there would still be extra friction. >> But IIUC only the mailing list was announced there.

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

2016-08-30 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 29 August 2016 at 17:29, Nicolas Wu wrote: > Hello, > > I think having multiple options is confusing to beginners, and so I'd like > to see a single download option on the download page. > > For me it's important that we have a way for beginners to use tools like ghc > and ghci on the command l

Re: [Haskell-community] haskell.org download page

2016-08-30 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 30 August 2016 at 15:56, Steven J. Syrek wrote: > alias ghci="stack ghci" > > ? stack ghci translates to cabal repl which interprets your whole project. No biggie on small projects, but annoying on big ones. But the correct alias is closer to alias ghci='stack exec -- ghci' Though you *could

Re: [Haskell-community] Next Steps in Downloads Page Discussion

2016-09-08 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 2 September 2016 at 01:48, Patrick Pelletier wrote: > On 9/1/16 2:12 PM, Gershom B wrote: >> >> We've had a productive discussion on this list, I think. But as many >> probably know, not all the discussions over this have been so >> positive. > I am really happy about the positive, conciliator

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] technical thoughts on stack

2016-09-13 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 9:47:20 PM UTC+2, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > > Thanks, many, for explaining better ways to interact directly with GHC > after using a `stack setup`. Perhaps, then, all that’s stopping someone > like me from liking the ease of `stack setup` is a little missing P

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] technical thoughts on stack

2016-09-13 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 8:58:53 PM UTC+2, Richard Eisenberg wrote: > > I’ve watched the recent back-and-forth about stack with quite a bit of > interest (as many of us have). The discussion inspired me to take another > look at stack. Here are the results of that foray. > > First, a dis

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] technical thoughts on stack

2016-09-13 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
e the work and not asking anybody—I've just been busy. Right now I have to modify the PATH every time I use GHC 7.8.4 because I needed to customize the build (I'm on OS X 10.11), but I still want GHC 8 by default. > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Paolo Giarrusso > wrote

[Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
(Resending from right address) We're talking about *three* options: 1. syntax for pure Haskell values, which I'll call HSON (Haskell jSON). That's just an alternative to YAML/TOML/... That would need extensions to allow omitting optional fields entirely. 2. a pure Haskell embedded domain-specific

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
On 16 September 2016 at 12:13, Patrick Pelletier wrote: > On 9/16/16 2:36 AM, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: >> >> (Resending from right address) >> >> We're talking about *three* options: >> 1. syntax for pure Haskell values, which I'll call HSON (Haskell &

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
fig language. Haskell will make a much better choice for such use > cases. Pure declarative is a pain for such use cases. > On 16 September 2016 at 16:08, Paolo Giarrusso > wrote: >> >> On 16 September 2016 at 12:13, Patrick Pelletier >> wrote: >> > On 9/16/16 2:36 A

Re: [Haskell-community] [Haskell-cafe] Standard package file format

2016-09-16 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
We're talking about *three* options: 1. syntax for pure Haskell values, which I'll call HSON (Haskell jSON). That's just an alternative to YAML/TOML/... That would need extensions to allow omitting optional fields entirely. 2. a pure Haskell embedded domain-specific language (EDSL) that simply gene

Re: [Haskell-community] Civility notes (was "Traversable instances for (, , ) a b")

2017-04-05 Thread Paolo Giarrusso
Rust's code of conduct (and the conduct of leaders) have been very successful at creating a welcoming community. However, those rules were there from the start. What's crucial is that a code of conduct is really agreed upon by a community and its elders. So thanks to Simon Peyton Jones for startin