Re: [Haskell-cafe] Markdown extension for Haddock as a GSoC project

2013-05-01 Thread Mateusz Kowalczyk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/05/13 06:57, Ben wrote: > sorry, i was only trying to make a helpful suggestion! > > just to clarify: i'm not championing asciitext (or any other > format) -- i only heard about it recently in a comment on > > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Markdown extension for Haddock as a GSoC project

2013-05-01 Thread Ben
sorry, i was only trying to make a helpful suggestion! just to clarify: i'm not championing asciitext (or any other format) -- i only heard about it recently in a comment on http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html i checked it out and it sounded cool, so i thought i

[Haskell-cafe] Backward compatibility

2013-05-01 Thread Adrian May
Hi All, Please don't interpret this as a rant: I'm just feeling a bit disappointed about probably having to give up on Haskell. Let's face it: this decision to change the default syntax in GHC7 means that right now Haskell looks about as stable as Ruby on Rails. I just tried to use Flippi. It br

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Looking for portable Haskell or Haskell like language

2013-05-01 Thread Christopher Howard
On 05/01/2013 12:21 AM, Gabor Greif wrote: > Am 27. April 2013 um 07:21 schrieb Christopher Howard > : > > > I can feel your pain... Here is a blog post I have written some time ago > http://heisenbug.blogspot.de/2011/09/ghc-704-on-centos.html > about how to bridge the gap. This was actually a R

[Haskell-cafe] ANN: hledger 0.20

2013-05-01 Thread Simon Michael
I'm pleased to announce hledger and hledger-web 0.20! hledger is a command-line tool and haskell library for tracking financial transactions, which are stored in a human-readable plain text format. In addition to reporting, it can also help you record new transactions, or convert CSV data from you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] What is the process for GSOC?

2013-05-01 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
No, if the process is the same this year as the previous one, all potential mentors and haskell.org gsoc admins (I think) get to vote on each submission, giving it a score, and then the best N proposals get chosen. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Dominic Steinitz wrote: > How is it decided whic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] a bug of 32bit ghc on mac ?

2013-05-01 Thread Bob Hutchison
I compiled and ran it a few hundred times in a script with no failures. I've got the same version of GHC on OS X 10.8.3. BTW, it's not just Yesod that has that bug you mentioned in the 64-bit version. Cheers, Bob On 2013-04-30, at 11:37 PM, Sray wrote: > hi all > > it seems i have met some

[Haskell-cafe] What is the process for GSOC?

2013-05-01 Thread Dominic Steinitz
How is it decided which Haskell projects get chosen? Do we discuss them here and take a collective view? Thanks, Dominic. PS I should point out I have an interest in the proposal to port charts to use diagrams (http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/jbracker/1) i.e

Re: [Haskell-cafe] remote-build-reporting: cabal phoning home?!

2013-05-01 Thread Scott Lawrence
Hello, I think (and a quick reading of source seems to bear this out) that that only happens when you run "cabal report". Which isn't quite undocumented - see "cabal report --help". On Wed, 1 May 2013, Ertugrul Söylemez wrote: Hello there, could somebody please shed some light on the follo