Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On Dec 15, 2007 2:16 AM, Felix Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with Duncan. getHomeDirectory should follow the Windows API. > There are other unix-style dot-config files in my Windows home folder > as well. Ideally the ghci config file would be put into > \GHC\. Have you installed an

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Felix Martini
On Dec 14, 2007 11:46 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like a bad idea to me. I agree with your initial reaction and > principle that we don't want to "be baking Un*x behaviour into APIs that > are supposed to do whatever is native on the current platform." I agree with Dun

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On Dec 14, 2007 11:46 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can just imagine the bug report and eventually figuring out that some > application the user had installed had set $HOME and this was messing up > finding files. There are not many (there is any, other than perhaps Cygwin?) wh

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:09 +, Simon Marlow wrote: > Juanma Barranquero wrote: > > On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME? > > > > Yes! > > > > If I define %HOME, it is *exactly* because I don't want to us

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On Dec 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok. Unless there are any objections, this is what we'll do. Thanks. Juanma ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/

mingw64

2007-12-14 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Glasgow-haskell-users, are you know about http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 ? this project was started just a few months ago, but it already provides downloads to test. the win64 support is very important for my project so please look at it -- Best regards, Bulat

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Marlow
Juanma Barranquero wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME? Yes! If I define %HOME, it is *exactly* because I don't want to use Windows' idea of a home directory (which could be perhaps more accurately def

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Juanma Barranquero
On Dec 14, 2007 3:53 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can imagine that you might want GHCi to look in $HOME, for backwards > compatibility. Yes. > But do you really want getHomeDirectory to return $HOME? Yes! If I define %HOME, it is *exactly* because I don't want to use Windows

Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Seth Kurtzberg
Thanks. On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:57:05 - "Bayley, Alistair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Seth Kurtzberg > > > > Wouldn't an eclipse plug in make more sense? (Unless one > > exists that I'm unaware of.) > > > http://

Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Krasimir Angelov
On Dec 14, 2007 4:46 PM, Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, I was recently made aware of "Visual Studio Shell": > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vsx2008/products/bb933751.aspx > > This is a freely redistributable Visual Studio installer that includes no > language support, but allow

RE: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Bayley, Alistair
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Seth Kurtzberg > > Wouldn't an eclipse plug in make more sense? (Unless one > exists that I'm unaware of.) http://eclipsefp.sourceforge.net/ Alistair * Confid

Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Seth Kurtzberg
Wouldn't an eclipse plug in make more sense? (Unless one exists that I'm unaware of.) -- Seth Kurtzberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:46:14 + Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Krasimir, > > Yes, I'm sure that's true. I suspect the best way is for Visual Haskell t

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Marlow
Juanma Barranquero wrote: %HOME% is the de-facto standard for Unix-like shell applications that were ported to Windows and need a home directory. If someone sets that, it means they want to use the folder in that way. And yes, that is the way GHCi has been working until now, so I think it should

Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Krasimir, Yes, I'm sure that's true. I suspect the best way is for Visual Haskell to add its own configuration sections to the .cabal file, and recognise them when they are already there. Understanding the .cabal file is not a problem, but we also have to be able to modify it, for examp

Re: Hugs faster than GHC

2007-12-14 Thread Bernd Brassel
Simon Peyton-Jones schrieb: > It's a perf bug in 6.6, happily fixed in 6.8.1 Great news! Thank you! ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

RE: Hugs faster than GHC

2007-12-14 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
It's a perf bug in 6.6, happily fixed in 6.8.1 Simon | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of | Bernd Brassel | Sent: 14 December 2007 12:59 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Hugs faster than GHC | | The following program revea

Hugs faster than GHC

2007-12-14 Thread Bernd Brassel
The following program reveals a performance bug in ghc 6.6 module HCBenchmark where type M1 a = () type M2 a = M1 a type M3 a = M2 a type M4 a = M3 a type M5 a = M4 a type M a = M4 a -- use M5 for 10 times the compile time and M3 for 1/10 f :: M (M (M (M (M (M (M (M (M (M x) f = () Ea

Re: where's the best place to post those really irratating noddy questions that people who are learning Haskell ask.....

2007-12-14 Thread jb162
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 12:00 +0100, Christian Maeder wrote: > There are no noddy question (only noddy answers, whatever "noddy" means) > I can think of one -- who's the man with the red and yellow car? British readers of a certain age are now singing along in their heads. ;-) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where's the best place to post those really irratating noddy questions that people who are learning Haskell ask.....

2007-12-14 Thread Neil Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/14/07, Nicholls, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ___ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > > ___

Re: where's the best place to post those really irratating noddy questions that people who are learning Haskell ask.....

2007-12-14 Thread Christian Maeder
There are no noddy question (only noddy answers, whatever "noddy" means) [EMAIL PROTECTED] New-to-Haskell, i.e. elementary, Haskell questions; extended discussions http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Mailing_lists HTH Christian ___ Glasgow-haske

where's the best place to post those really irratating noddy questions that people who are learning Haskell ask.....

2007-12-14 Thread Nicholls, Mark
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Re: upgrading visual studio integration to use 6.8.2....

2007-12-14 Thread Krasimir Angelov
The hard work is to integrate it with the new version of Cabal. The problem is that the configurations model that Cabal employs can't be easily matched with the configurations in Visual Studio. For the new GHC versions I expect that the changes will be more trivial. Cheers, Krasimir On Dec 13,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Christian Maeder
Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote: > Alex Jacobson: >> Will this also work with Tiger or do I have to upgrade? it will not work on Tiger > I don't know. I have no box with Tiger to test. Give it a try. The > worst that can happen is that it is going to complain about some missing > libraries or sim

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.2

2007-12-14 Thread Christian Maeder
Ian Lynagh wrote: > I'm not sure where GMP frameworks on OS X fit in. The framework does not fit it at all, because the binary has not been built with it. Conversely, a binary built with (some) frameworks can't do anything with corresponding dylibs. (We haven't agreed yet, if dylibs or frameworks