RE: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-04 Thread Henning Thielemann


On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Mitchell, Neil wrote:


The error comes from using QuickCheck 2, which happens to

also use the

operator (). I can see two ways to solve the problem:

(1) Add  2 after QuickCheck in the Wired.cabal file.

(2) Add hiding (()) after import Test.QuickCheck in
Data/Hardware/Internal.hs


Emil,

my suggestion is: Please use alternative (2), at least if
there are no further problems with quickcheck 2! Otherwise,
depending on quickcheck
2 just introduces unnecessary package incompatibilities.


Note that if you import hiding something that doesn't existing you'll
have a problem. Therefore this fix will require = 2 for quickcheck, and
introduce incompatibilities either way.


That's why I like to import infix operators explicitly instead of hiding 
some identifiers:

   http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Import_modules_properly
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-01 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 03:04 +0200, Cetin Sert wrote:
 Hi,
 
 what is the best action to take if a package from hackage fails to
 build? Is there a recommended/established common way to deal with
 build failures/runtime bugs etc.?

Most packages specify a maintainer which is conventionally an email
address so you can contact them. Some packages also have bug trackers.

Duncan


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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-01 Thread Emil Axelsson

Hi Cetin!

Glad to see at least one person trying my package :)

The error comes from using QuickCheck 2, which happens to also use the operator 
(). I can see two ways to solve the problem:


(1) Add  2 after QuickCheck in the Wired.cabal file.

(2) Add hiding (()) after import Test.QuickCheck in 
Data/Hardware/Internal.hs

I guess this means you can't use cabal-install...?

Does anybody know the best way to avoid this problem without manual 
intervention? Or should I just require people to use QuickCheck 2?


PS. Cetin, please let me know if you have any questions regarding Wired. I'm 
slowly working on enhancing the library, and I'll soon upload a version with 
timing analysis and a DEF backend in.


/ Emil



Cetin Sert skrev:

Hi,

what is the best action to take if a package from hackage fails to 
build? Is there a recommended/established common way to deal with build 
failures/runtime bugs etc.?


For example:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Links/Elite/ac cabal install wired
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading Wired-0.1.1...
Configuring Wired-0.1.1...
Preprocessing library Wired-0.1.1...
Building Wired-0.1.1...
[ 1 of 21] Compiling Data.Hardware.Internal ( Data/Hardware/Internal.hs, 
dist/build/Data/Hardware/Internal.o )


Data/Hardware/Internal.hs:198:15:
Ambiguous occurrence `'
It could refer to either `Data.Hardware.Internal.', defined at 
Data/Hardware/Internal.hs:129:4
  or `Test.QuickCheck.', imported from 
Test.QuickCheck at Data/Hardware/Internal.hs:11:0-21

cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
Wired-0.1.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
exit: ExitFailure 1

Regards,
CS




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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-01 Thread Stephan Friedrichs

Emil Axelsson wrote:

[...]

The error comes from using QuickCheck 2, which happens to also use the 
operator (). I can see two ways to solve the problem:


(1) Add  2 after QuickCheck in the Wired.cabal file.

(2) Add hiding (()) after import Test.QuickCheck in 
Data/Hardware/Internal.hs


Emil,

my suggestion is: Please use alternative (2), at least if there are no 
further problems with quickcheck 2! Otherwise, depending on quickcheck 
2 just introduces unnecessary package incompatibilities.




[...]



//Stephan

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RE: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-01 Thread Mitchell, Neil
  The error comes from using QuickCheck 2, which happens to 
 also use the 
  operator (). I can see two ways to solve the problem:
  
  (1) Add  2 after QuickCheck in the Wired.cabal file.
  
  (2) Add hiding (()) after import Test.QuickCheck in 
  Data/Hardware/Internal.hs
 
 Emil,
 
 my suggestion is: Please use alternative (2), at least if 
 there are no further problems with quickcheck 2! Otherwise, 
 depending on quickcheck
 2 just introduces unnecessary package incompatibilities.

Note that if you import hiding something that doesn't existing you'll
have a problem. Therefore this fix will require = 2 for quickcheck, and
introduce incompatibilities either way.

Thanks

Neil

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hackage Build Failures

2008-10-01 Thread Emil Axelsson

Stephan Friedrichs skrev:

Emil Axelsson wrote:

[...]

The error comes from using QuickCheck 2, which happens to also use the 
operator (). I can see two ways to solve the problem:


(1) Add  2 after QuickCheck in the Wired.cabal file.

(2) Add hiding (()) after import Test.QuickCheck in 
Data/Hardware/Internal.hs


Emil,

my suggestion is: Please use alternative (2), at least if there are no 
further problems with quickcheck 2! Otherwise, depending on quickcheck 
2 just introduces unnecessary package incompatibilities.


Hi Stephan,

Option (1) was only meant as a temporary solution for Cetin. It just occurred 
that the obvious solution to make both QC1 and QC2 users happy is to have an 
explicit import list rather than hiding () (there are no further problems with 
QC2). I'll do this until QC2 is standard in GHC.


/ Emil


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