Re: Status of Haskell Platform 2014.2.0.0

2014-07-09 Thread Gregory Collins
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > The status is: *Good-to-Go!* > Great work guys, this is a fantastic cleanup. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.or

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-09 Thread Gregory Collins
all of these nice high-quality packages, and I as a package author myself I appreciate how much time goes into bumping version bounds. I just wish we could solve that root issue with better tooling rather than mortgaging the future. Without upper bounds on deps, lim_{t -> ∞} P(build-ok) = 0 :( -- Gre

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-09 Thread Gregory Collins
or so > called "violations" of part of the PvP with dubious interests. I can have tls-streams ready in about 5 minutes if we decide to go that way. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-09 Thread Gregory Collins
en dependencies are updated. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-09 Thread Gregory Collins
icy was first proposed. We can debate it again (and we will, on the other thread), but this isn't about legalisms: packages that violate PVP break builds. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-08 Thread Gregory Collins
anytime soon: I don't think your side of the issue has the votes, nor is there an attractive enough counter-proposal. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-04-08 Thread Gregory Collins
g io-streams for inclusion into the platform (it's a very nice and high-quality library, if I do say so myself) but I haven't because the matter simply isn't settled yet and I don't think it's right to canonize one approach over the others. G -- Gregory Collins

Re: Gearing up (again) for the next release: 2014.2.0.0

2014-03-31 Thread Gregory Collins
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Mark Lentczner wrote: > *cgi* - no longer builds, and we've been unwilling to bring it forward > because it pulls in MonadCatchIO-mtl Should we remove it from the platform? G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haske

Re: All open issues have been transferred from Trac to Github

2014-03-22 Thread Gregory Collins
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Robert Lefkowitz wrote: > At this point I would recommend turning off the ability to open new issues > in Trac and directing people to Github. Posthaste! Thanks for your work on this. -- Gregory Collins ___ H

Re: aeson and dlist in HP 2013.4.0.0

2013-11-26 Thread Gregory Collins
it is forward compatible with > future evolutions (such as exposing dlist, and/or scientific). > > - Mark > > _______ > Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > -- Gregory Collins

Re: aeson and dlist in HP 2013.4.0.0

2013-11-18 Thread Gregory Collins
ess to the datatype constructors might allow you to violate. For dozens of reasons it's a software engineering "best practice". G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: dlist in the Haskell Platform? (was 2013.4.0.0 proposal)

2013-11-14 Thread Gregory Collins
er (like HPC test coverage) that would give you an idea of how good your implementation is. I don't think there's a reason to delay the inclusion of this package for these changes, they sound modest and appropriate. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Ha

Re: Proposal: Add-on packs

2013-05-30 Thread Gregory Collins
easily be made as a standalone by the upstream project in question then we have little hope or interest in spending the effort to package it ourselves. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Proposal: Add the unordered-containers package and the hashable package to the Haskell Platform

2013-03-19 Thread Gregory Collins
> Libraries mailing list > librar...@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: binary in HP

2013-03-10 Thread Gregory Collins
se it might only > be 6 months more wait and it'd resolve itself naturally. > I think for GHC boot packages we should ship with the same version that ships with GHC. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

2013-02-11 Thread Gregory Collins
ted, pending inclusion of hashable". G On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Gregory Collins wrote: > Hi all, > > First: Bas, would you support making case-insensitive a Haskell platform > package? > > Assuming you say yes, I'd like to propose it for inclusion in the Haskel

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

2013-01-31 Thread Gregory Collins
latform mailing list > Haskell-platform@projects.**haskell.org > http://projects.haskell.org/**cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**haskell-platform<http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform> > -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform ma

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

2013-01-30 Thread Gregory Collins
e unfortunate performance regressions. My suggestion was to remove the randomized salt by default in favor of providing a "newtype RandomSalt a = RandomSalt a" for use in situations where guarding against hash collision attacks was important. G -- Gregory Collins _

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: add attoparsec

2013-01-24 Thread Gregory Collins
a proper deprecation cycle wherever not), but I'd like to think that we generally nominate high-quality packages with responsible maintainers who are aware of these issues. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@

More platform packages

2013-01-23 Thread Gregory Collins
ce" (I hesitate to use the word "committee") that would work to further these kinds of long-term goals by helping maintainers refactor things to make them more platform-friendly? G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing lis

Haskell Platform proposal: add attoparsec

2013-01-23 Thread Gregory Collins
l.org/package/attoparsec The proposal review deadline is Feb 23. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

2013-01-21 Thread Gregory Collins
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Gregory Collins wrote: > Any proposals for deadlines? Mark? P.S. all: I've set the review deadline to Feb 10. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.

Re: Haksell Platform proposal: Add JuicyPixels

2013-01-20 Thread Gregory Collins
d saving images in various > common format including jpeg and PNG. > > Regards > > Vincent Berthoux > > > ___ > Haskell-platform mailing list > Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org > http:

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive and Haskell 98/2010 compliance

2013-01-14 Thread Gregory Collins
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Bas van Dijk wrote: > Something else: according to the HP procedure proposals should be > discussed on the libraries list. Gregory: could you start a new > discussion there? > libraries@ is already on this thread. G -- Gre

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive and Haskell 98/2010 compliance

2013-01-14 Thread Gregory Collins
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemm...@henning-thielemann.de> wrote: > I think it should import ByteString.Char instead of ByteString. That's a type synonym, the distinction doesn't matter here. G

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive and Haskell 98/2010 compliance

2013-01-14 Thread Gregory Collins
ke them anyways. One thing the haddocks could maybe do better is to have a bigger, louder, and more informative disclaimer about the issue that points users towards the "modern default": use text, and encode/decode as UTF-8. G -- Gregory Collins

Re: HP Package Requirements (was: Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive)

2013-01-13 Thread Gregory Collins
7;s fault it doesn't have viable competitors: we shouldn't be making busy-work for package authors to make their code portable to other Haskell implementations that don't exist yet. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing li

Haskell Platform proposal: Add case-insensitive

2013-01-11 Thread Gregory Collins
itive And the case-insensitive package can be found on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/case-insensitive If Bas is not willing to have case-insensitive be a platform package I will rescind the proposal. Any proposals for deadlines? Mark? -- Gregory Co

Re: HP 2012.4.0.0 -- Call for Proposals

2012-08-28 Thread Gregory Collins
tableByteArray: https://github.com/gregorycollins/hashtables/blob/master/src/Data/HashTable/Internal/IntArray.hs The types from primitive have less overhead than vector, which is important for some of my use cases. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform

Re: Safe Haskell and Haskell Platform: near-term tactics

2012-07-17 Thread Gregory Collins
-> IO ()) -> Builder You need Foreign.Ptr in scope to make that happen, but that's marked Trustworthy also. Put the two together and you can scribble on arbitrary memory locations from a pure function. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-

Re: Safe Haskell and Haskell Platform: near-term tactics

2012-07-17 Thread Gregory Collins
Re-adding haskell-platform@, which I assume you left off by accident? On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > Gregory Collins wrote: > > This slightly underestimates the amount of work required. Each package's > api > > must be carefully audited for unsa

Re: Safe Haskell and Haskell Platform: near-term tactics

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Collins
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > Gregory Collins wrote: > > I'm uncomfortable with this kind of a diktat without a plan for who's > > actually going to do the work. Any volunteers? > > Well, "the work" is sending out a short

Re: Safe Haskell and Haskell Platform: near-term tactics

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Collins
ly recommended for 2012.4.0.0, > and likely to be *required* for 2013.2.0.0. I'm uncomfortable with this kind of a diktat without a plan for who's actually going to do the work. Any volunteers? G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platfor

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

2012-07-13 Thread Gregory Collins
sted, and (c) a mechanism for > telling the system which packages are trusted. > Yes, I see your point now, after reading the docs more carefully. 27% of the packages on Hackage being inferred safe, however, means you might have an uphill b

Re: Haskell Platform proposal: Add the vector package

2012-07-12 Thread Gregory Collins
hink this would work!). As it stands, one miscreant can cause a lot of damage, especially when you consider that right now anyone can upload any version of any package to Hackage --- Safe Haskell or not. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mail

Re: repo now on github

2012-03-23 Thread Gregory Collins
the darcs repo at > http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/. That said - how do people feel > about making the github the official trunk? Seems like it would be more > accessible and useful than the darcs repo has been. > +1 for github! -- Gregory Collins _

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Where is the CABAL file for haskell-platform 2010.2.0.0?

2011-01-23 Thread Gregory Collins
n says)? > Will the CABAL file for 2010.2.0.0 not be available *at all* after > 2011.x.0.0 is released? http://code.haskell.org/haskell-platform/ is a darcs repository. Why don't you look in the history? G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-pla

Re: packaging options for Mac OS X

2010-11-28 Thread Gregory Collins
work? I.e. have you managed to repackage the .pkg file inside into another distribution? Because every time I've tried this the mac installer tools have choked. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.

Re: packaging options for Mac OS X

2010-11-23 Thread Gregory Collins
gt; packages built and installed. Take apart the GHC installer package, and build > a new, single installer package that installs both the H.P. framework and the > GHC framework. This give two frameworks installed on the Mac, and the GHC one > is the same as what GHC's installer packag

Re: Seeking new maintainer for OSX binary installer

2010-09-07 Thread Gregory Collins
Don Stewart writes: > Given the discussion online about forming a Mac strike force, I'd also > suggest putting this in that context, and asking on the libraries@ list > for help. Already updated the strike force wiki page! G -- G

Seeking new maintainer for OSX binary installer

2010-09-07 Thread Gregory Collins
Hi all, Is anyone willing to take on maintenance of the OSX binary installer for the Haskell Platform? Thanks, G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman

Re: HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

2010-08-17 Thread Gregory Collins
iversal mode. I think something along the lines of: CFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -O2" might do it. > And, wow, you're maintaining the OSX sources/installer without having > actual native console access! That's impressive! That's dons -- I build the bin

Re: HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

2010-08-16 Thread Gregory Collins
Don Stewart writes: > So the generic installer seems to be working? Leopard/Mac/intel. Betcha it's a 64-bit issue on Snow Leopard then. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.

Re: HP comments from the State of Haskell survey

2010-08-16 Thread Gregory Collins
er > > http://github.com/gregorycollins/cabal2macpkg Keep in mind that this cruft is unlikely to help you with the MacPorts stuff because we use the GHC upstream installer and that code is tailored towards working with OSX installer .pkg files. G -- Gregory Collins

Re: ghc-asm problem in OS-X 2010.2.0.0 when compiling happstack-util

2010-07-23 Thread Gregory Collins
I forgot :( I think I'll create a new installer version which patches this issue. Stay tuned. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: HP 2010.2.0.0 OSX Installer RC1

2010-07-22 Thread Gregory Collins
and shouldn't have any of the >> problems the last one had re: OSX 10.5. >> >> OSX users: please give the package a shot and report any issues you >> find. >> > > To release, do I just rename the .dmg ? If there are no problems with it, then "yes".

HP 2010.2.0.0 OSX Installer RC1

2010-07-21 Thread Gregory Collins
e the package a shot and report any issues you find. Cheers, G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

2010-07-16 Thread Gregory Collins
lose to stable enough to be considered for even "semi-blessed" status. Yet. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: [haskell-platform] #120: GHC Package in Haskell Platform for OS X doesn't work

2010-04-26 Thread Gregory Collins
s issue has been filed with the GHC team: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3470 This is also a duplicate of #67. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cg

Re: Beta version of the new HP site

2010-03-20 Thread Gregory Collins
, and everyone will be happy. * The "Download Haskell" text should be in HTML, and removed from the .png -- I could see if it was some cool heading font that wasn't likely to be on the user's system, but it's in Trebuchet MS -- double yuck. * the curved c

Re: Next major platform release? Date planning.

2010-02-24 Thread Gregory Collins
ngs). > * Package freeze: Mar 14, 2010 > * Major release date: Mar 21, 2010, during the Haskell Hackathon in Zurich > > Any thoughts? > > Duncan? Maintainers? Sorry for being tardy in replying, I'm moving in March so I'm worried I might not have oodles of time to work o

Re: universal binary version of Haskell Platform?

2009-12-03 Thread Gregory Collins
d & cleaned up from the version control history but I don't have a Tiger machine (or a PPC) so someone else would have to pick up that ball in order to build Haskell Platform binaries for Tiger or for PPC machines, sorry. G -- Gregory Collins ___

Re: Haskell Platform web page could be more informative

2009-10-07 Thread Gregory Collins
ns and discussions related to the platform (for user-level queries or otherwise) on the haskell-platform list, being lower-traffic makes it easier to monitor closely. G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.

ANNOUNCE: Release candidate for 2009.2.0.2 OSX installer

2009-07-26 Thread Gregory Collins
tp://github.com/gregorycollins/haskell-platform-osx-installer/tree/master Thanks, G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: [haskell-platform] #72: Broken profiling libraries in OS X package

2009-06-20 Thread Gregory Collins
Should these be included in the next release? G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: Announce: second alpha release of OSX haskell platform installer

2009-06-04 Thread Gregory Collins
Malcolm Wallace writes: > Gregory Collins wrote: > >> The second build of the OSX installer is now available for limited >> testing: >> >> http://gregorycollins.net/static/haskell/haskell-platform-2009.2.0.1-alpha2.pkg > > I'm on a PowerPC G5, running

Announce: second alpha release of OSX haskell platform installer

2009-06-03 Thread Gregory Collins
'll bundle up a .dmg file for release. G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: [Fwd: OSX installer -- first draft]

2009-06-03 Thread Gregory Collins
he two should be compatible; I'd expect most users would want to switch to cabal though. G -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

Re: [haskell-platform] #59: Haskell Platform install failed

2009-06-03 Thread Gregory Collins
indow -> Installer Log" and changing the detail level to "Show all logs". I'm a little puzzled by this, the haddock package shouldn't have a post-install script...? Thanks for the bug report, G. -- Gregory Collins _

Re: Release Schedule for 2009.2.0.2

2009-06-03 Thread Gregory Collins
Don Stewart writes: > It would be great if we could have our first public Mac OSX installer > by then too, along with a Debian and Fedora installer. I agree, it'd be great to get some feedback on that (tumbleweeds so far..) so I can prepare a final package. G -- Greg

Re: OSX installer -- first draft

2009-06-02 Thread Gregory Collins
ell platform distribution. Going the other way is proving to be quite a challenge. I'm starting to wonder whether "embarrassment" on the part of Apple engineers is the reason this stuff is so under-documented. G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-platform

OSX installer -- first draft

2009-06-01 Thread Gregory Collins
problems. Sorry about how long it's taken -- I'm getting married on Saturday (!) so finding time to work on this has been difficult indeed. G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org

OSX installer -- another status update

2009-05-21 Thread Gregory Collins
for the platform libraries. I still have some work to do on the postinstall scripts for the cabal libraries, and we won't have an uninstaller right away, but I should have a viable test installer within a few days. G -- Gregory Collins ___

OSX installer: status

2009-04-18 Thread Gregory Collins
). Unless there's some miracle I doubt this'll be done in the next few days; I have to rewrite large chunks of cabal2macpkg, but before that I need to find comprehensible doco, or, barring that, do a bunch of reverse-engineering. I'll keep you poste

Re: Stuff that needs doing

2009-04-16 Thread Gregory Collins
have to add code to cabal2macpkg to filter them out. (I have to do this eventually anyways, but I'd rather focus on getting something working for round 1.) G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@p

Installer blurb text

2009-04-14 Thread Gregory Collins
Hi all, The OSX installer system has (optional) "blurb screens" for the following categories: * welcome * readme * conclusion blurb Can anyone send me text for these? Thanks, G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing li

Re: Announce: first (semi-working) version of cabal2macpkg

2009-04-05 Thread Gregory Collins
Gregory Collins writes: > Hi all, > > The "cabal2macpkg" tool > (http://github.com/gregorycollins/cabal2macpkg/tree/master) is far > enough along now that you can build .pkg files from .cabal libraries. > > I'd appreciate some feedback; if any OSX users who

Announce: first (semi-working) version of cabal2macpkg

2009-04-01 Thread Gregory Collins
t unfortunately $ ls -ld *pkg drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 1 Apr 14:54 kmeans-0.1.1.pkg $ open kmeans-0.1.1.pkg G. -- Gregory Collins ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.haskell.o

Re: Volunteering

2009-04-01 Thread Gregory Collins
Leopard version. If anyone wants to discuss this project with me, I'll try to be on #haskell; my nick is "gcollins". This project has been on my backburner for a while but I intend to invest some time in it to try to make the deadline. G. -- Gregory Collins