Re: Re[2]: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Krasimir Angelov
The usage of something else than cabarc isn't supported directly and will require extra work. Is the lzma algorithm better than bz2? If I have to use something better than cabarc I would prefer more popular compression algorithm. For Visual Haskell the Nullsoft installer isn't an option because it

Re: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Krasimir Angelov
Currently the tool is general enough to be used with Hugs or any other project. You just need to have a prepared (template) MSI database and the tool will add your files to it. What I tend to add is a special mode where the tool will read your .cabal file and will automatically detect which files

Re: Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell

2006-08-24 Thread skaller
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 00:53 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Vyacheslav, > > Thursday, August 24, 2006, 11:51:46 PM, you wrote: > > > I am trying to figure out where these two libraries stand in relation > > to each other and which one is preferred to do generic programming in > > Haskell. I

Re: Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell

2006-08-24 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Vyacheslav, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 11:51:46 PM, you wrote: I am trying to figure out where these two libraries stand in relation to each other and which one is preferred to do generic programming in Haskell. I understand that their goals often intersect but cou

Re: Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell

2006-08-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Vyacheslav, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 11:51:46 PM, you wrote: > I am trying to figure out where these two libraries stand in relation > to each other and which one is preferred to do generic programming in > Haskell. I understand that their goals often intersect but couldn't > find any goo

Re: Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell

2006-08-24 Thread Vyacheslav Akhmechet
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vyacheslav Akhmechet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 24, 2006 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell To: Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok, so there are two aspects that I can see here. One such aspect is ability to "reflect" on t

Data.Generics vs. Template Haskell

2006-08-24 Thread Vyacheslav Akhmechet
I am trying to figure out where these two libraries stand in relation to each other and which one is preferred to do generic programming in Haskell. I understand that their goals often intersect but couldn't find any good comparisons. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, - Slava

Re: Replacement for GMP: Update

2006-08-24 Thread Thorkil Naur
Hello Peter, Sorry for the late reply. From your latest communication which seems to be Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:12:05 -0400 From: Peter Tanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: OpenSSL License (was Replacement for GMP: Update) To: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am a bit uncertain where the

Re[2]: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Krasimir, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 6:15:17 PM, you wrote: > I wrote simple tool that I am using to build MSI installer for Visual > Haskell. It will not be so hard to extend it to support Cabal. After > that it will be easy to prepare an installer for GHC with optional > libraries. Don't

Re: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Karsmir, I wrote simple tool that I am using to build MSI installer for Visual Haskell. It will not be so hard to extend it to support Cabal. After that it will be easy to prepare an installer for GHC with optional libraries. Don't expect it to be ready for 6.6 release! Would it be possible

Re: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Krasimir Angelov
I wrote simple tool that I am using to build MSI installer for Visual Haskell. It will not be so hard to extend it to support Cabal. After that it will be easy to prepare an installer for GHC with optional libraries. Don't expect it to be ready for 6.6 release! Cheers, Krasimir On 8/22/06, Jas

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: Here's what happened (this is after I applied David Kirkman's SMP.h patch to my tree). When I said 132 failures I was speaking from memory. The actual number was 136, as noted in the log: OVERALL SUMMARY for test run started at Mon Aug 14 11:20:03 EDT 2006 1412 t

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the thr

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:34 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the th

Re: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Ross Paterson
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:22:05PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > >at least we can start by removing from ghc distribution large > >graphics/sound libraries that was already cabalized. are there such > >beasts? > > All those packages are already Cabalized. Hugs uses Cabal t

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Gregory Wright wrote: I built HEAD and ran ghc-regress last week. It looks like the compiler crashes are almost all gone. There are still 132 unexpected failures, but only one compiler crash. Are these crashes all for the threaded2 way? We'll probably need to disable SMP on PPC for th

Re: A registerised mips-linux port of GHC

2006-08-24 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Hello All, > > I currently try to get a ghc port on mips-linux going. I understand > Igloo does the same ATM, and things look promising so far. > > However, the port is currently unregisterised, and I would like to > improve it a bit. A registerised port seems to be achieva

Re: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: Hello Simon, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 2:40:55 PM, you wrote: This means that making a minimal distribution in a build tree that has everything is not just a matter of removing stuff, also the Haddock index must be rebuilt, and the package database needs to have the ex

Re[2]: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Thursday, August 24, 2006, 2:40:55 PM, you wrote: > This means that making a minimal distribution in a build tree that has > everything is not just a matter of removing stuff, also the Haddock > index must be rebuilt, and the package database needs to have the extra > packages remove

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Gregory Wright
Hi Simon, On Aug 24, 2006, at 3:56 AM, Simon Marlow wrote: Hi Folks, Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/ Solaris yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that this is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS

RE: Packages in GHC 6.6

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24 August 2006 11:20, Henning Thielemann wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Simon Marlow wrote: > >> - A source tree can optionally be populated with more packages, >>which will be included in the build as normal. At the moment, >>the only packages you can add in this way are: >> >>

HOpenAL and Haskore

2006-08-24 Thread Juan Rodríguez Hortalá
Hello everybody, I have a suggestion and a question. The first is about Haskore, I think it would be cool if it could be included in the distribution of GHC. And the later is about HOpenAL. Some information is found in http://www.haskell.org/HOpenGL/newAPI/index.html , on the entry for Sound, b

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread pepe
"Worse is Better" gives an entertaining view on this fact. pepe On 24/08/06, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:56 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris > yesterday. I think we may have found

Re: 6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread skaller
On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 08:56 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris > yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that > this > is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS

6.4.3 and threaded RTS problems

2006-08-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Folks, Roman Leshchinskiy and I looked into the 6.4.3 crashes on Sparc/Solaris yesterday. I think we may have found the problem, and it seems likely that this is the same problem affecting 6.4.3 on MacOS X. The threaded RTS is assuming in a couple of places that pthread_cond_wait() doesn'