Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Caio Marcelo
On 5/30/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my comments to your README: (...) Bulat, thanks for your suggestions/comments! I've turned most of your points into entries/paragraphs on HsJudy/TODO =) -- Caio Marcelo ___ Haskell mailing list

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Shellac and Lambda Shell 0.3

2006-05-30 Thread Robert Dockins
Fellow Haskellers, I am pleased to announce the simultaneous release of Shellac 0.3 and Lambda Shell 0.3. Because I actually never got around to announcing the 0.2 releases, the following change lists are compared to versions 0.1. Shellac is a library for creating read-eval-print style shells.

Re: [Haskell] Re: My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread John Meacham
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:23:51PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Duncan Coutts wrote: > >I know some people take issue with using the LGPL for Haskell libraries > >because of the linking problems. While it's easy to swap over a LGPL > >C .so module it's rather harder for Haskell since there's no sta

[Haskell] Re: My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Simon Marlow
Duncan Coutts wrote: I know some people take issue with using the LGPL for Haskell libraries because of the linking problems. While it's easy to swap over a LGPL C .so module it's rather harder for Haskell since there's no stable ABI. However this is easy to overcome by adding an explicit excepti

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Joel Reymont
On May 30, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Brian Hulley wrote: Well the problem with LGPL afaiu is that if you statically link your code to it your are required to make your own source code available. You could be confusing LGPL with GPL, I think. Or am I confused? Thanks, Joel -- http://wager

Re: [Haskell] Understanding the LGPL

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Kuklewicz
Brian Hulley wrote: > Malcolm Wallace wrote: >> "Brian Hulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If what you really mean by "open source" is the ability to take code >> and into make non-open modifications to it (as BSD permits), then >> that is far more demanding than what most people mean by the ter

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Brian Hulley
Malcolm Wallace wrote: "Brian Hulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://judy.sf.net I wonder if the authors of the library could be persuaded to make it available under an Open Source license, because currently it is under the very limiting restrictions imposed by LGPL... You have a very n

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:16 +0100, Brian Hulley wrote: > Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > > the Judy library itself: > > http://judy.sf.net > > http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/judy/Judy-1.0.3.tar.gz > > I wonder if the authors of the library could be persuaded to make it > available under an O

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Malcolm Wallace
"Brian Hulley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://judy.sf.net > > I wonder if the authors of the library could be persuaded to make it > available under an Open Source license, because currently it is under > the very limiting restrictions imposed by LGPL... You have a very non-standard def

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Brian Hulley
Bulat Ziganshin wrote: the Judy library itself: http://judy.sf.net http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/judy/Judy-1.0.3.tar.gz I wonder if the authors of the library could be persuaded to make it available under an Open Source license, because currently it is under the very limiting res

Re: [Haskell] My summer of code project: HsJudy

2006-05-30 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Caio, Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 5:29:46 AM, you wrote: > I'm Caio Marcelo and my project for this Summer of Code is "Fast > Mutable Collection Types for Haskell", I'll be implementing a lot of > APIs for data collections (like Map and Arrays) using Judy library as > backend. my comments to yo