igloo:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:26:52PM -0800, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > duncan.coutts:
> > >
> > > It's no use pretending that readFile returns Unicode, it just doesn't
> > > (except on Hugs which does it properly). GHC is not going to catch up on
> > > this any time soon.
> >
> > Why
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:26:52PM -0800, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> duncan.coutts:
> >
> > It's no use pretending that readFile returns Unicode, it just doesn't
> > (except on Hugs which does it properly). GHC is not going to catch up on
> > this any time soon.
>
> Why don't we use the existi
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:11:50PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:41 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
>
> > I don't follow you there. There's a copy of the .cabal file inside the
> > tarball, which you say you're not changing, but it is the tarball that
> > people will downl
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:07:08PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> It's no use pretending that readFile returns Unicode, it just doesn't
> (except on Hugs which does it properly). GHC is not going to catch up on
> this any time soon.
On the contrary, it's the only way to stay sane. readFile does re
duncan.coutts:
>
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:53 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > I've added readTextFile and writeTextFile to the Utils module and
> > > checked all other uses of readFile and writeFile.
> > >
> > > I've also switc
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:41 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> I don't follow you there. There's a copy of the .cabal file inside the
> tarball, which you say you're not changing, but it is the tarball that
> people will download and build.
True, however when planning what to install, cabal-install
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:53 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > I've added readTextFile and writeTextFile to the Utils module and
> > checked all other uses of readFile and writeFile.
> >
> > I've also switched the rawSystemStdout to as
#247: Needless license warning on PublicDomain
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Reporter: guest |Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: low|Milestone:
Component: Cab
Mon Feb 25 05:32:55 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* GHC's package db files are actually ascii, not UTF8
Because they're in Haskell Read/Show format which escapes non-ascii chars
in Strings.
M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs -1 +1
M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs +8
View p
Mon Feb 25 05:28:24 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Check for invalid UTF8 when parsing .cabal files
This assumes a permissive UTF8 decoder has inserted '\xfffd' as a replacement
character. We should check strictly for errors when we decode instead, though
it's nice to do that
Mon Feb 25 05:18:38 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Don't include the version number in the xsl-stylesheets path
This is still shockingly platform dependent. Sigh.
M ./Makefile -1 +1
View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080225131838-adfee-4b
Mon Feb 25 05:17:56 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Specify in the user guide that .cabal files must be valid UTF-8
M ./doc/Cabal.xml -4 +5
View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080225131756-adfee-37c53192cea22bdd7631fedcc90ff4554eb72515.gz
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Mon Feb 25 05:02:28 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Don't warn about missing license file for public domain packages
Fixes ticket #247.
The whole concept of public domain as a license is also rather dodgy. In
many legal jurisdictions it has no legal meaning and where it does o
Mon Feb 25 05:33:57 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Read package descriptions from the index as UTF8
M ./Hackage/IndexUtils.hs -2 +3
View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install/_darcs/patches/20080225133357-adfee-26fcef97e3b4aa5179bc080233614d803828b64b.gz
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On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> I've added readTextFile and writeTextFile to the Utils module and
> checked all other uses of readFile and writeFile.
>
> I've also switched the rawSystemStdout to assume UTF8 output format.
The read and write functions ought to ope
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:35:58AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 00:52 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> > The tags stuff was just a quick hack, but in general my preference is
> > to keep the additional data outside of the package, so that what one
> > downloads under a particula
Mon Feb 25 02:24:50 PST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* help nhc98 by hinting an import decl
M ./Distribution/Simple/Utils.hs -1 +1
View patch online:
http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal/_darcs/patches/20080225102450-6871e-dfbbeccbb0f375573a7e5efebb9bb1f01a5661f8.gz
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 00:52 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> The tags stuff was just a quick hack, but in general my preference is
> to keep the additional data outside of the package, so that what one
> downloads under a particular package-id is always what was uploaded.
I rather like the idea of
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