Re: [Haskell-cafe] question about uploads of code contribution

2008-08-22 Thread Galchin, Vasili
ahhh ... makes perfect sense vis-a-vis the read/write problem Jeremy. Hopefully using an incremented version number is enforced via the hackage database!! ;^) Vasili On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:55 AM, Jeremy Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:29:40 -0500, Galchin, Vasili

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Libraries of standard QuickCheck properties

2008-08-22 Thread Sean Leather
This is an interesting thought. Has there been any work towards collecting properties written with QuickCheck (or similar) into a reusable chunk of some form? Yes, it's in development, called 'checkers'. code.haskell.org/checkers Great! I especially like the Char generators. This would

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Ketil Malde
Christopher Lane Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a debianized cabal-install would be the biggest win in my book. If there were an unofficial debianized mirror of hackage, I probably wouldn't use it anyway. I might. I generally want to use newer versions of development stuff (i.e.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:00 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Lane Hinson wrote: I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to debian would be a bit of a no-no. Debian packages are expected to have active

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Don Stewart
magnus: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:00 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Lane Hinson wrote: I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to debian would be a bit of a no-no. Debian packages are expected to have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] question about uploads of code contribution

2008-08-22 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi 1) I want to upload a version with minor changes. Should I send out an announcement? How minor are the changes? I tend to annouce no more than once every few months for a package, and when its popular or has new features people might be interested in (I am assuming this is a package

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Seth Gordon
Ketil Malde wrote: Christopher Lane Hinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having a debianized cabal-install would be the biggest win in my book. If there were an unofficial debianized mirror of hackage, I probably wouldn't use it anyway. I might. I would. (I run Ubuntu at home, Debian on my

[Haskell-cafe] Real World Haskell hits a milestone

2008-08-22 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
Hi, all - I'm proud to report that John, Don and I have finished the draft manuscript of our book. It is now available online in its entirety. For more details, see here: http://www.realworldhaskell.org/blog/2008/08/22/our-writing-is-now-complete/ We expect the final book to be published

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Real World Haskell hits a milestone

2008-08-22 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Bryan, Friday, August 22, 2008, 10:10:19 PM, you wrote: I'm proud to report that John, Don and I have finished the draft manuscript of our book. It is now available online in its entirety. many thanks! the book is huge step toward in spreading Haskell to rule the world :) -- Best

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: First Monad Tutorial of the Season

2008-08-22 Thread Hans van Thiel
Hello All, I'm proud to announce the first monad tutorial of the new season. It's under the Wiki permissive licence, but the web page has some clip art, so 'The Greenhorn's Guide to becoming a Monad Cowboy' is on http://www.muitovar.com/monad/moncow.xhtml Best Regards, Hans van Thiel

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Real World Haskell hits a milestone

2008-08-22 Thread Daryoush Mehrtash
Are the book's sample code available for download? Thanks Daryoush On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Bulat Ziganshin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bryan, Friday, August 22, 2008, 10:10:19 PM, you wrote: I'm proud to report that John, Don and I have finished the draft manuscript of our

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:00 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Lane Hinson wrote: I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to debian would

Re: [Haskell-cafe] PRE-ANNOUNCE: cabal-debian (automatically debianize cabal packages)

2008-08-22 Thread Don Stewart
nomeata: Hi, Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 10:13 +0100 schrieb Magnus Therning: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:32 AM, David Bremner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:52:00 -0400 (EDT), Christopher Lane Hinson wrote: I'm not a DD, but I think uploading ~500 hackage packages to

[Haskell-cafe] multi-core programming in Haskell

2008-08-22 Thread Galchin, Vasili
Hello, With pure side of the Haskell house, there is hope that the generated code could automagically scale as more cores are added yes? It seems that it is on the stateful monadic side of the house in an appplication that it is the programmer responsibility to design the software so that

Re: [Haskell-cafe] multi-core programming in Haskell

2008-08-22 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi across increasing cores? (I am assuming that things like par construct are monadic). http://haskell.org/hoogle/?q=par Control.Parallelpar :: a - b - b No monads :-) Thanks Neil ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Reader monad, implicit parameters, or something else altogether?

2008-08-22 Thread Alexander Dunlap
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Henning Thielemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all. Quoting Bjorn Buckwalter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd store the constants in a data structure along the lines of: data AstroData a = AstroData { mu_Earth