Re: [GHC] #4884: registerPackage fails with multiple command line --package-conf= flags

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4884: registerPackage fails with multiple command line --package-conf= flags --+- Reporter: r6 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed

Re: [GHC] #4888: Document behaviour of throwTo to your own ThreadId

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4888: Document behaviour of throwTo to your own ThreadId -+-- Reporter: batterseapower|Owner: simonmar Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #4879: Deprecate exports

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4879: Deprecate exports -+-- Reporter: basvandijk|Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal|Milestone: 7.2.1

[GHC] #4889: Ignore broken pipe error when writing to a died process

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4889: Ignore broken pipe error when writing to a died process -+-- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal

Re: [GHC] #4525: Type synonyms not expanded consistently in errors

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4525: Type synonyms not expanded consistently in errors --+- Reporter: igloo| Owner: Type: bug | Status: closed Priority:

Re: [GHC] #4385: Type-level natural numbers

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4385: Type-level natural numbers +--- Reporter: diatchki |Owner: diatchki Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #4870: Compiler panic with SPECIALIZE pragma on function from imported module

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4870: Compiler panic with SPECIALIZE pragma on function from imported module ---+ Reporter: dreixel | Owner: Type: bug | Status:

[GHC] #4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform +--- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform +--- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: kgardas Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform +--- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: igloo Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal |

Re: [GHC] #4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform

2011-01-11 Thread GHC
#4890: Add DTrace support to i386-solaris2 platform +--- Reporter: kgardas | Owner: igloo Type: feature request | Status: patch Priority: normal |

RE: Question about Haskell AST

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
desugarModule returns a GHC.DesugaredModule Inside a DesugaredModule is a field dm_core_module :: HscTypes.ModGuts Inside a ModGuts is a field mg_binds :: [CoreSyn.CoreBind] And there are your bindings! Does that tell you what you wanted to know? Simon PS: When you have it clear, would you

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 10 Jan 2011, at 22:37, Daniel Peebles wrote: So the basic point seems to be: if you know how to use a tool, you don't usually curse and swear when you use it. If you don't, you tend to swear a lot! There is a meta-point though - how easy is it to learn the tool? Regards, Malcolm

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Marlow
On 11/01/2011 00:36, rocon...@theorem.ca wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Simon Marlow wrote: It's time to consider again whether we should migrate GHC development from darcs to (probably) git. From our perspective at GHC HQ, the biggest problem that we would hope to solve by switching is that

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Gábor Lehel
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: It's time to consider again whether we should migrate GHC development from darcs to (probably) git. From our perspective at GHC HQ, the biggest problem that we would hope to solve by switching is that darcs makes

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: It also seems to make finding buggy patches rather hard. Have a look at `git bisect`. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/ HUMBER THAMES DOVER WIGHT PORTLAND: NORTH BACKING WEST OR NORTHWEST, 5 TO 7, DECREASING 4 OR 5,

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 11/01/2011, at 16:14, Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: It also seems to make finding buggy patches rather hard. Have a look at `git bisect`. I'm aware of git bisect. It doesn't do what I want. I usually have a pretty good idea of which patch(es) might

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 11 January 2011 19:07, Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: On 11/01/2011, at 16:14, Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: It also seems to make finding buggy patches rather hard. Have a look at `git bisect`. I'm aware of git bisect. It doesn't do

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Roman Leshchinskiy r...@cse.unsw.edu.auwrote: On 10/01/2011, at 13:27, Simon Marlow wrote: It would be a prerequisite to switching that a GHC developer only has to use one VCS. So we either migrate dependencies to git, or mirror them in

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 11/01/2011, at 21:41, Iavor Diatchki wrote: If GHC and the libraries on which it depends were in git (migrated, or mirrored), then we could use git sub-modules to track the dependencies between changes to GHC and changes to the libraries. Roughly, the workflow would be like this:

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Simon Marlow
On 11/01/11 21:57, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: On 11/01/2011, at 21:41, Iavor Diatchki wrote: If GHC and the libraries on which it depends were in git (migrated, or mirrored), then we could use git sub-modules to track the dependencies between changes to GHC and changes to the libraries.

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 11/01/2011, at 22:20, Simon Marlow wrote: On 11/01/11 21:57, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: IMO, darcs-all works pretty well. I don't think I ever really had problems with missing library patches. I often see problems where someone has done 'darcs pull' rather than './darcs-all pull' and

Re: New codegen failing test-cases

2011-01-11 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Hello Simon, Have you gotten a chance to look at these two hunks? (see below) Thanks, Edward Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Fri Dec 10 10:59:26 -0500 2010: Ok, I've got a patch that fixes this segfault. In the process I looked at all patches to Cg* modules after Nov 2009 and

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread David Brown
On Tue, Jan 11 2011, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: On 11/01/2011, at 22:20, Simon Marlow wrote: On 11/01/11 21:57, Roman Leshchinskiy wrote: This would be useful. Unfortunately, git's rewinding seems rather crippled compared to darcs. In what way? Thomas says that it doesn't do automatic

Re: RFC: migrating to git

2011-01-11 Thread roconnor
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Simon Marlow wrote: Thanks for this. I distilled your example into a shell script that uses git, and demonstrates that git gets the merge wrong: http://hpaste.org/42953/git_mismerge I've posted an annotation at

Re: [Haskell] School of Expression pages missing from haskell.org

2011-01-11 Thread Hudak, Paul
You can find the SOE webpage here: http://plucky.cs.yale.edu/soe/ I also updated the links from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books to point to the right place. Please let me know if you see any other problems. Thanks,-Paul -Original Message- From:

[Haskell] 2nd CfP: JAL Special Issue on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems

2011-01-11 Thread Temur Kutsia
[Apologies for multiple copies] JOURNAL OF APPLIED LOGIC Special Issue on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/tkutsia/jal-wwv.html

Re: [Haskell] School of Expression pages missing from haskell.org

2011-01-11 Thread Malcolm Wallace
On 11 Jan 2011, at 14:26, Hudak, Paul wrote: You can find the SOE webpage here: http://plucky.cs.yale.edu/soe/ I also updated the links from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/ Books to point to the right place. Please let me know if you see any other problems. I have added a redirect

Re: [Haskell] School of Expression pages missing from haskell.org

2011-01-11 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:26:51AM -0500, Hudak, Paul wrote: You can find the SOE webpage here: http://plucky.cs.yale.edu/soe/ I also updated the links from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books to point to the right place. Please let me know if you see any other problems. Thanks,

[arch-haskell] AUR Comment for hpong

2011-01-11 Thread AUR Feedback
from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26171 luinuz wrote: I'm using only AUR haskell packages. Updated with complete output in http://aur.pastebin.com/N83wR7GA Thanks! --- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go the the above package page and click

Re: [arch-haskell] State of Affairs: Summarizing 83 days worth of experience

2011-01-11 Thread Magnus Therning
On 11/01/11 11:27, Peter Simons wrote: Here's my process for updating packages on AUR: 1. Pull down any changes to my local copy of the HABS tree. 2. Open a clean chroot and bind-mount HABS and some personal tools into it. 3. Get the URL for the package that needs updating. 4. Run

Re: [arch-haskell] What version of cabal2arch should be used to build HABS?

2011-01-11 Thread Magnus Therning
On 11/01/11 20:41, Peter Simons wrote: Hi Magnus, Are [cabal2arch and archlinux] in a state where new versions can be released right now? only recently, Remy has added the platform-provides.txt feature to these tools, which constitutes a major change in behavior. It's best illustrated

Re: Announce: ~Haskell 2011

2011-01-11 Thread Sjoerd Visscher
So, I wish to declare open season on proposals for the 2012 standard. If there is a language feature you care about, please do take an hour or two to review the details on our wiki [3], search for older discussions on the mailing lists, and draft the Report changes you think would be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

2011-01-11 Thread John Lato
On 10 January 2011 16:36, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 16:13, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com wrote: On Monday 10 January 2011 16:45:36, Aaron Gray

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

2011-01-11 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Aaron Gray wrote: Yes. I have came back to looking at the binary package, the only thing is I think I have to build my own primatives with it as it is big-endian, where ActionScript Byte Code format is little-endian. It does provide some little-endian functions but they

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] School of Expression pages missing from haskell.org

2011-01-11 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Julian Gilbey wrote: Does anyone know what has happened to the Haskell School of Expression (SOE) webpages? The link from books for learning Haskell now gives a 404 Not Found error. Maybe caused by the recent server move. ___

[Haskell-cafe] Possible participation on parallel programming book

2011-01-11 Thread Michael Oswald
Hello, Just found the following in the Ada group: There is an open source E-Book about parallel programming, where people can participate (via patches for a git repository): http://lwn.net/Articles/421425/ Since Haskell has very good parallel capabilities, maybe the community would also

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
On 11 January 2011 00:02, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 22:30, Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: John Lato schrieb: You could use my word24 package[1]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

2011-01-11 Thread Antoine Latter
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2011 00:02, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 January 2011 22:30, Henning Thielemann

[Haskell-cafe] ArchLinux binary repository available for beta testing

2011-01-11 Thread Peter Simons
Hi guys, those of you who use the ArchLinux distribution might be interested to know that a team of volunteers has put together a binary package repository that complements the set of Haskell packages that's already being distributed by ArchLinux. Subscribers of that repository can use Pacman to

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC.Ptr, Foreign.Storable, Data.Storable.Endian, looking for good examples of usage

2011-01-11 Thread Aaron Gray
On 11 January 2011 18:54, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 January 2011 00:02, Antoine Latter aslat...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Aaron Gray aaronngray.li...@gmail.com

[Haskell-cafe] MonadRandom-computation that does not terminate

2011-01-11 Thread Tim Baumgartner
Hi, I'm having difficulties with this function I wrote: iterateR :: (MonadRandom m) = (a - m a) - a - m [a] iterateR g s = do s' - g s return (s:) `ap` iterateR g s' I'm running the computation with evalRandIO and surprisingly the first call of main in ghci succeeds, but the second does not

[Haskell-cafe] Improving HList programming/debugging (longish)

2011-01-11 Thread jeff p
This message shows how to slightly reformulate HLists (and other type-level things) to get better type-checking and more informative error messages. The technique is interesting in that it uses GADTs and functional dependencies and seems to not be implementable with associated type synonyms. It

[Haskell-cafe] HXT is slow?

2011-01-11 Thread Patrick Hurst
Is it just me, or is HXT slow? I noticed that both reading a document from a file, as well as running computations, are exceedingly slow, with simple stuff like 'get the contents of everything with a given class' taking .3 seconds for a 400KB HTML file in Python using lxml and 2 seconds using HXT

Re: [arch-haskell] RFC: A new tool for dependencies

2011-01-11 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Magnus, So, what are your thoughts. Should I continue hacking on this? there already is a tool that can figure out which versions of a given set of packages are compatible with each other: cabal-install. The code of that utility features an algorithm to compute something that's called

Re: [arch-haskell] State of Affairs: Summarizing 83 days worth of experience

2011-01-11 Thread Nicolas Pouillard
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:27:54 +0100, Peter Simons sim...@cryp.to wrote: Hi Peter and others, While I didn't post much on this list I try to carefully follow the evolution since I heavily needs to have a working/well packaged environment for Haskell in ArchLinux. I'm in the situation where in