Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:30:42 +0200, Axel Simon wrote: > On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:58, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > >> I'm on MacOS and it's similar for me. GTK just keeps crashing randomly >> or behaving weirdly, reducing the utility of cool tools like hp2any . >> > > The same question: do you mea

GTK+ for gtk2hs Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

Heinrich Apfelmus schrieb: > Axel Simon wrote: [...] >> I hope that the Aqua port of Gtk+ will mature eventually and that Gtk+ >> reaches a similar look-and-feel as Qt on the major three platforms. It >> will never be perfect, but if there's some sort of abstraction for the >> menu bar and some goo

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

>    binary       (rank  5/2200) +0.5 Apart from the overlap with cereal, I'm missing a pretty important feature from the Binary class: custom monad state and support for seekable streams. For example, GHC has its own version of Binary to implement lookup tables: instead of writing a string wher

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

Hi Don, Heinrich, On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:58, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote: >> Don Stewart wrote: >>> Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the >>> OpenGL >>> suite. >>> >>>* gtk2hs >>>* wxHaskell >> I tried GTK+ (with gtk2hs) a few years ago, t

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

duncan.coutts: > On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:07 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > marlowsd: > > > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart > >> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 09:07 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > marlowsd: > > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart >> > wrote: > >> > >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >> > >> New capab

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

Hi, Am Freitag, den 16.07.2010, 09:07 -0700 schrieb Don Stewart: > marlowsd: > > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart >> > wrote: > >> > >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >> > >>

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:01:14 +0200, Don Stewart wrote: > > Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the OpenGL > suite. > > * gtk2hs > * wxHaskell > I tried GTK+ (with gtk2hs) a few years ago, together with Glade (the windows designer for GTK+), and found many seriou

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic writes: > For example, even more than the category section of Hackage, we could > have "semi-blessed" Haskell packages listed on the platform for > web-development (happstack and snap), documents (pandoc), etc. to Speaking for Snap, we aren't even close to stable enough to

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

marlowsd: > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart > > wrote: >> >> Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 >> >> New capabilities: >> * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? >> >> >> W

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

Simon Marlow writes: > So I suggest we leave the GUI library as an add-on, but explain > clearly how people can get up and running with *some* GUI library > quickly, with pointers to instructions for their platform. Is it possible to have other sets of similar libraries? For example, even more

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On 15/07/2010 21:01, Don Stewart wrote: > Questions remain about what GUI lib to bring in, to augment the OpenGL > suite. > > * gtk2hs > * wxHaskell > > Both cabalized, but will hamper the ease of building from source (since > they bring in big C lib deps). I like gtk2hs a lot, and I've

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Simon Marlow wrote: > On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart > > wrote: >> >>Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 >> >>New capabilities: >>*

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On 15/07/2010 23:53, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart > wrote: > > Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > > New capabilities: > * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? > > > Why both? Their paralle

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

niklas.broberg: > > According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the > > Haskell Platform, by category are : > > > > Libs > >    binary       (rank  5/2200) > >    utf8-string  (rank  7/2200) > >    ghc-paths    (rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock! > >    hslogger     (rank

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

>> And haskell-src-exts (rank 10/2200) is considered already in, or what? ;-) >> > > Will it replace haskell-src ? That's definitely the intention yes. /Niklas ___ Haskell-platform mailing list Haskell-platform@projects.haskell.org http://projects.hask

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

niklas.broberg: > > According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the > > Haskell Platform, by category are : > > > > Libs > >    binary       (rank  5/2200) > >    utf8-string  (rank  7/2200) > >    ghc-paths    (rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock! > >    hslogger     (rank

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

> According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the > Haskell Platform, by category are : > > Libs >    binary       (rank  5/2200) >    utf8-string  (rank  7/2200) >    ghc-paths    (rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock! >    hslogger     (rank 16/2200  -- LPGL >... And h

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

bos: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > > Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >    New capabilities: >        * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? > > > Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing, without > blessing

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >New capabilities: >* Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? > Why both? Their parallel existence and purpose is already confusing, without blessing the two :-) >* JSO

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > Things we might realistically propose to add for 2011.1 > >    New capabilities: >        * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? >* Unicode:text >* Vectors:vector +1 >        * JSON parsing:   json >        * An x

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 01:01:14PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the > Haskell Platform, by category are : [...] > ghc-paths(rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock! AFAIK, not for Haddock bundled with/build from within the ghc

Re: Most popular libraries not in the HP

>        * Binary parsing: binary + cereal ? >        * Vectors:        vector I strongly support adding these to HP. > * gtk2hs And I support gtk2hs. I've had odd issues with wxHaskell and have observed me/others having trouble finding good examples or help. >        * Hashing:        pureMD

Most popular libraries not in the HP

According to the 2010 download stats, the most popular libs *not* in the Haskell Platform, by category are : Libs binary (rank 5/2200) utf8-string (rank 7/2200) ghc-paths(rank 15/2200) -- needed by haddock! hslogger (rank 16/2200 -- LPGL transformers (rank 18)