Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-28 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 01:54:51AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 01:06 +, Ross Paterson wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:37:07AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > > The issue was that hugs's version of ReadP needed -98 and Cabal's > > > 'compat' version didn't, so I jus

Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-27 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 01:06 +, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:37:07AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 23:22 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > > Another advantage of Parsec is that then you'd be able to install a > > > Hugs package without passing the -98 f

Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-27 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 12:37:07AM +, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 23:22 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > Another advantage of Parsec is that then you'd be able to install a > > Hugs package without passing the -98 flag every time. ReadP requires > > forall, but Parsec doesn't un

Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-27 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 23:22 +, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > > > I'd like to work on this too. But I I'm lacking some knowledge here. > > > > At the moment cabal is using ReadP, right? > > > > Am I also right that ReadP is lacking user friendly error messages > >

Re: Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-27 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi I'd like to work on this too. But I I'm lacking some knowledge here. At the moment cabal is using ReadP, right? Am I also right that ReadP is lacking user friendly error messages compared to parsec? I like the idea of using either { ; ; } or indentat

Hello. some questions and suggestions

2006-12-27 Thread Marc Weber
Dear Cabal-devel-list reader I've written two mails to Isaac Jones concerning cabal. He kindly asked me to use this list. So here I am. Scroll to the end of this mail to get to the most important text (look for 3) ) 1) first mail with response M