Re: RFC: include a cabal-install executable in future GHC releases

2014-03-31 Thread harry
Mikhail Glushenkov-2 wrote Austin promised to provide us with build bots for 3/4 of the tier 1 platforms. I assume that he is busy with preparing with the 7.8 release now. How often is cabal-install released? Requiring a dedicated buildbot seems like an overkill just for publishing binaries. I

Haskell Weekly News

2014-03-31 Thread harry
There hasn't been a HWN since mid-December. I've emailed the editor with no response, and there doesn't seem to have been any (public) online activity from him since. I hope he's OK, but either way, it seems that HWN needs a new editor. Any volunteers? -- View this message in context:

Haskell Support on Windows

2014-03-31 Thread harry
I've been getting the impression that a lot of the stickier GHC bugs are Windows specific, while very few GHC hackers actually use Windows, other than to ensure that GHC works on it. Windows is already somewhat of a second-class citizen in Hackage, where platform-sensitive packages tend to only

SV: Haskell Support on Windows

2014-03-31 Thread Niklas Larsson
Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. Niklas - Ursprungligt meddelande - Från: harry volderm...@hotmail.com Skickat: ‎2014-‎03-‎31 14:27 Till: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org Ämne: Haskell Support on

Re: Haskell Support on Windows

2014-03-31 Thread Johan Tibell
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Niklas Larsson metanik...@gmail.comwrote: Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. +1 I believe there's at least one investment bank that uses Haskell on Windows. Perhaps they could set one up. ;)

Re: SV: Haskell Support on Windows

2014-03-31 Thread harry
Niklas Larsson wrote Seems to me that a less pessimistic solution would be to set up a windows buildbot. We need a meatbot who can fix Windows issues in GHC. What's the current state with buildbots? Wondering around the wiki led me to http://darcs.haskell.org/ghcBuilder/builders/, which

New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

2014-03-31 Thread Gershom Bazerman
There's been lots of exciting work going into the forthcoming GHC 7.8.1 release. But even with all these new features, our language is far from complete and I wouldn't want the GHC team to rest on their laurels. Especially with so much renewed community involvement in GHC development, it seems

Re: New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

2014-03-31 Thread 山本和彦
Hi Gershom, We've also seen a lot of interest in distribution and cloud computing. From the articles I've read, efficient concurrent programming involves using node.js, so I think we should put some work into writing a new-new-new-IO Manager built on top of this technology. As a member of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

2014-03-31 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: Hi Gershom, We've also seen a lot of interest in distribution and cloud computing. From the articles I've read, efficient concurrent programming involves using node.js, so I think we should put some work into writing a