[Haskell] Streams 0.1.7 library announce

2006-11-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell, I'm glad to present Streams library version 0.1.7. If you don't yet know, Streams is a fast extensible I/O and serialization library ( http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams ). Main changes against previous version: * true support for GHC 6.6 * support of files larger than

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread Johan Tibell
I would just love to have some Haskell video casts. That would be awesome! Cheers, Johan On 11/23/06, Bayley, Alistair wrote: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=231495 The links to the video are a couple of yellow buttons at the bottom of the article: "Watch" or "Download". I have

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:56:00PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=231495 > > The links to the video are a couple of yellow buttons at the bottom of > the article: "Watch" or "Download". > > I haven't watched this yet (it's nearly an hour long, I thi

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread Lemmih
On 11/24/06, Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:56:00PM -, Bayley, Alistair wrote: > http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=231495 > > The links to the video are a couple of yellow buttons at the bottom of > the article: "Watch" or "Download". > > I h

[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:31:27AM +0100, Lemmih wrote: > Worked for me with mplayer+w32codecs. Oops! I missed the "Download" link and tried to download through "Watch" ;-) Thanks! Best regards Tomasz ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://

[Haskell] Re: base libraries

2006-11-24 Thread Simon Marlow
Simon PJ and I spent some time thinking about this today, and wrote a wiki page. There are several interconnected issues, which makes this hard to discuss on a mailing list. I hope this can evolve into a concrete design for a reorganisation of the packages. Please feel free to edit the wik

[Haskell] Library versioning policy

2006-11-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello haskell, We all know what is a "DLL hell" - if some program written against version 2.0 of library, then using version 1.0 or 3.0 of the same library when program compiled may call all sorts of devil there is a great solution of this problem - Eternal Compatibility Theory. unfortunately, it

[Haskell] ANNOUNCE: QuickCheck 2 development version

2006-11-24 Thread Björn Bringert
This is just a quick announcement that the development version of QuickCheck 2 is now available in a public darcs repository. Some highlights: - Shrinks failing test cases. - Supports testing monadic code. - Handles exceptions gracefully. - coarbitrary has moved to a separate class, to make it e

[Haskell] Re[2]: base libraries

2006-11-24 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, November 24, 2006, 1:58:36 PM, you wrote: > There are several interconnected issues, which makes this hard to discuss > on > a mailing list. i hardly imagine how it can be discussed on wiki :) >http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/PackageReorg thanks, it's muc

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread James William Pye
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:26:38AM +0100, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > Does anybody know how to watch this on Linux? I would prefer to simply > download the movie file and use MPlayer on that, but I failed. > > . or on Mac OS X (haven't tried yet) The latest mplayer works for me on FreeBSD/amd64 (1.0

Re: [Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM - video

2006-11-24 Thread C.M.Brown
Hi, I got this working on Mac OS X. I had to download media player 9: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx This contains the WMV3 codec. Cheers, Chris. On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, James William Pye wrote: > On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 10:26:38AM +0100, Tomas

Re: [Haskell] Re[2]: base libraries

2006-11-24 Thread Sven Panne
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 15:42 schrieb Bulat Ziganshin: > [...] > libraries should be split into 4 rings: frozen, core, base and the rest That's one possibility, but not the only one. Especially I don't see the need to distinguish between "frozen" and "core". > [...] > these libs should inc

Re: [Haskell] Re[2]: base libraries

2006-11-24 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 17:42 +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > libraries should be split into 4 rings: frozen, core, base and the rest > > * frozen libs are installed with haskell compiler and cannot be > upgraded using Cabal. it includes Cabal itself and libraries required > by Cabal, currently it'

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: QuickCheck 2 development version

2006-11-24 Thread Audrey Tang
在 Nov 24, 2006 9:29 PM 時,Björn Bringert 寫到: This is just a quick announcement that the development version of QuickCheck 2 is now available in a public darcs repository. Some highlights: - Shrinks failing test cases. - Supports testing monadic code. Wonderful. Many thanks for QC2! :-) By

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: QuickCheck 2 development version

2006-11-24 Thread Bjorn Bringert
On 24 nov 2006, at 22.04, Audrey Tang wrote: 在 Nov 24, 2006 9:29 PM 時,Björn Bringert 寫到: This is just a quick announcement that the development version of QuickCheck 2 is now available in a public darcs repository. Some highlights: - Shrinks failing test cases. - Supports testing monadic c