Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-30 Thread Simon Hengel
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 09:01:13AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Simon Hengel wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:54:34AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote: > >> We may very well end up doing this. There's no rush to make it > >> default

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-29 Thread Simon Hengel
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 07:54:34AM -0800, Johan Tibell wrote: > We may very well end up doing this. There's no rush to make it > default. We can make a release with opt-in sandboxes and decide three > months later if we want to make it the default. Nice. So I guess the idea is that we will have a

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-29 Thread Simon Hengel
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 04:33:05PM +0100, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote: > > So personally I think it is a better approach to first release the > > feature, and give people time to try whether there use case are covered. > > The idea is to put out a release candidate some time before the final > releas

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-29 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Johan, On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:22:36AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: > *Sandboxing should be used by default* I'm a little bit late on this one. But I'm somewhat skeptical here. As I understand it, the sandboxing feature is not yet released. I think there is a chance that the first version

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-09 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Duncan, > > That is interesting. I'd be interested in how exactly that works. Is > > there a place where I can read about it? Or if not, can you point me to > > the related commits? > > http://lambdasandwich.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/ending-gsoc.html > > For the changes to ghci see the ghc gi

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-02 Thread Simon Hengel
Duncan, > > Moreover, it would be awesome if it would regenerate generated source > > files on :reload. I'm not sure if this is feasible without changes to > > GHCi, but a custom macro, e.g. > > > > :cabal-reload > > > > could still work. > > The GSoC project that started this off did that

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-02 Thread Simon Hengel
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 11:25:11AM +0100, Simon Hengel wrote: > > Recently, I had to add a MIN_VERSION macro to my code because of the > > old-time / time change in directory, but couldn't test the library in > > ghci because the macro was not defined. > > > >

Re: Providing a smooth default user experience

2012-11-02 Thread Simon Hengel
> Recently, I had to add a MIN_VERSION macro to my code because of the > old-time / time change in directory, but couldn't test the library in > ghci because the macro was not defined. > > I discovered that configuring ghci with > > :set -optP-include -optPdist/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h > >

Re: Hackage2 server ready for testing

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Hengel
On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 01:39:18PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:00:47PM +0200, Simon Hengel wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:57:50PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 07:12:41PM +0200, Simon Hengel wrote: > > >

Re: Hackage2 server ready for testing

2012-09-06 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Ian, sorry for the late reply. If I'm not explicitly on TO/CC it is likely that I miss that mail. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:57:50PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 07:12:41PM +0200, Simon Hengel wrote: > > Hi, > > with Firefox, I sometimes get an "

Re: Hackage2 server ready for testing

2012-08-25 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi, with Firefox, I sometimes get an "XML Parsing error" on the package index. Exact symptoms: Firefox shows an error message (black and red text on yellow background) while loading/rendering. After a short time (< 1s) the page still loads successfully. Steps to reproduce: - p