[Haskell-cafe] Cloud Haskell Appetiser: a taste of distributed programming in Haskell

2012-07-21 Thread Eric Kow
est/doc/html/Control-Distributed-Process.html [mh-actors]: http://sulzmann.blogspot.co.uk/2008/10/actors-with-multi-headed-receive.html [phd-11]: http://www.well-typed.com/blog/67 [simple]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/distributed-process-simplelocalnet/latest/doc/html/Control-Dist

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [***SPAM***] Parallel Haskell Digest 11

2012-07-06 Thread Eric Kow
ents form. I may add a "I read the Parallel Haskell Digest" question if it helps later. On 6 Jul 2012, at 14:57, Sean Leather wrote: > Hi Eric (et Café), > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Eric Kow wrote: > *[Everybody should write everything in Go?][m7] (28 May) >

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 11

2012-07-05 Thread Eric Kow
e with Warp/WAI][s9] * [How to use multiple cores when compiling with GHC? : haskell][r1] Help and Feedback -- Well, this is the end of the Haskell Parallel Digest, but feedback would still be much appreciated! Get in touch

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 10

2012-05-18 Thread Eric Kow
27;atomicModifyIORef' work?][sc6] * [Concurrency using simple IORef?][sc5] * [Atomic IO wrapper/laziness?][sc4] * [Attempt at parallel `atomicModifyIORef` implementation][sc3] * [Concurrent data structure guidelines][sc2] ## Reddit * [SPJ talk: Towards Haskell in the Cloud : haskell][r1] * [Revamped Haskell concurrency and parallelism libraries page:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "desactivate" my Show instance implementations temporarily

2012-04-25 Thread Eric Kow
adn't occurred to me that I shouldn't define GeniShow in terms of other things (but vice versa) because I don't want to accidentally change my file format just because I was trying to make something prettier. Oops. -- Eric Kow <http://erickow.com> signature.

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 9

2012-04-20 Thread Eric Kow
--- * [Is there a way in Haskell to query thread state using ThreadID after a forkIO?][s1] * [Are haskell channels `Control.Concurrent.Chan` safe for multiple readers/producers?][s2] * [How to take F# measurements to get speedups][s3] * [Using Haskell to program the GPU : haskel

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 8

2012-03-02 Thread Eric Kow
Writing “fib” to run in parallel: -N2 is slower?][s6] * [How to use Parallel Strategies in Haskell][s7] * [Parallel graphics processing in Haskell][s8] * [Why is concurrent haskell non deterministic while parallel haskell primitives (par and pseq) deterministic?][s9] * [Runtime performance degradation for

[Haskell-cafe] Parallel Haskell Digest 7

2011-12-24 Thread Eric Kow
l haskell Parallel on mac?][s4] * [Mutable, (possibly parallel) Haskell code and performance tuning][s5] * [Why does my concurrent Haskell program terminate prematurely?][s6] * [Parallel Matrix Multiplication][s7] * [Yo /r/haskell, I heard you like monads... : haskell][r1] * [GHC commit: Allow t

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Parallel Matrix Multiplication

2011-12-16 Thread Eric Kow
for parallel > programming. > Could some one please tell me how to improve this. > Also kindly recommend me some literature for parallel programming in Haskell. -- Eric Kow <http://erickow.com> signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail _

[Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell for Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1

2011-06-15 Thread Eric Kow
tterings about pushing for inclusion in the Haskell Platform, but there is still a lot of work of to do before we get there [2]. Help wanted :-) Enjoy! Eric [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.wxhaskell.devel/612 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.wxhaskell.devel/61

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Distributing Haskell GUI apps for Windows/MacOS?

2011-06-07 Thread Eric Kow
ble to other GUI libraries. Hope this helps, Eric [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24625975 -- Eric Kow <http://erickow.com> signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "Computational Semantics w/ Functional Programming", Jan van Eijck and Christina Unger, 2010. It's in #Haskell. :)

2011-05-03 Thread Eric Kow
e list could be much more! I think we're slowly creeping up to a point where the list will sort of explode into being. The thing I'm most looking forward to is people making combined use of packages, joining up work by two completely unrelated groups. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint #6 (1-3 April, Paris)

2011-03-04 Thread Eric Kow
. Thanks also to the Software Freedom Conservancy for making fundraising and reimbursements so painless! If you can't join us in person, but you'd like to cheer us on, say hello at http://darcs.net/donations.html! Looking forward to seeing you! Eric PS. Berets optional. -- Eric

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint #6 (March, April, or May 2011)

2011-02-24 Thread Eric Kow
llaume and Eric -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only) signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mail

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [darcs-users] Darcs failure

2010-12-22 Thread Eric Kow
ttp://bugs.darcs.net/issue1770 [2] http://wiki.darcs.net/Releases/2.5 -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint 5 report

2010-11-03 Thread Eric Kow
Hi everybody, Here's a little report from the most recent Darcs hacking sprint (held 15-17 October in Orleans) http://blog.darcs.net/2010/10/darcs-hacking-sprint-5-report.html -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Make your Darcs repositories hashed?

2010-10-12 Thread Eric Kow
s/2010-August/024941.html Discussion on eventually retiring support for old-fashioned repositories I can guarantee that at least Darcs 2.5 (the upcoming release) will continue to provide full support for old-fashioned repositories. But they are going away eventually so that we can focus on maki

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint 15-17 Oct, Orleans

2010-10-05 Thread Eric Kow
there are still spaces. Hope to see you there! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabber or Google Talk only) signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___

Re: [Haskell-cafe] I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-01 Thread Eric Kow
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 09:51:14 +, cas...@istar.ca wrote: > I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows. Maybe this will help: http://wewantarock.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/haskell-platform-2010-1-0-0-and-wxhaskell-on-windows/ -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.u

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs in 2010: talk/video online

2010-09-12 Thread Eric Kow
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 19:33:56 +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > PS: the talk segments are: I missed a segment! 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUytayyTGTU 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXjTmWD81JA 3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lXOD3fLwU8 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aueSoZShobo 5. h

[Haskell-cafe] darcs in 2010: talk/video online

2010-09-12 Thread Eric Kow
om/watch?v=1lXOD3fLwU8 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aueSoZShobo 5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxJKMSRmBY 6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdImEqRmw7I -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, try +44 (0)1273 64 2905 or xmpp:ko...@jabber.fr (Jabbe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5 beta 4

2010-08-25 Thread Eric Kow
HC download page (we're looking for older versions) http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download.html 2. scroll down to earliest GHC 6.10 3. click on release notes 4. search for 'base package' Maybe somebody will shout if this turns out to be the wrong way to approach things, or if it

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Darcs hacking sprint (15-17 Oct, Orleans)

2010-08-14 Thread Eric Kow
ong other things, the Software Freedom Conservancy makes it easy for open source projects to raise funds and hold assets (as part of a legal entity). For more information on supporting Darcs, see http://darcs.net/donations.html See you there! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/hom

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Techniques for ensuring parser correctness?

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Kow
7;ve been making little bits of progress trying to document Darcs on a technical high level, eg. - http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsInternals/Record - http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsInternals/CacheSystem Such a grammar would be a nice addition to the good-enough-that-you-could-rewrit

[Haskell-cafe] Re: transliteration with Haskell iconv?

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Kow
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 17:40:37 +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > I'd like transliterate a UTF-8 text to ASCII. > but with my attempts at using Codec.Text.IConv and > examples/hiconv -f utf-8 -t ascii --transliterate, I get > > Aonach M?r is a mountain in the Highlands of Scotl

[Haskell-cafe] transliteration with Haskell iconv?

2010-04-09 Thread Eric Kow
Codec.Text.IConv and examples/hiconv -f utf-8 -t ascii --transliterate, I get Aonach M?r is a mountain in the Highlands of Scotland. On va boire un petit caf? si ?a te dit. Anybody run into this and know what to do? Thanks! PS. I'm on Ubuntu 9.04 if it makes any differen

[Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell ease of installation?

2010-04-03 Thread Eric Kow
Greg (who maintains the Haskell stuff on MacPorts) can solve in time. Thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@h

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint (ZuriHac) info!

2010-03-15 Thread Eric Kow
that you have an up to date version of the wiki :-) Thanks to our donors for making this sprint possible and to Johan and the Zurich/Google crew for setting up this massive hackathon. Whee! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [wxhaskell-users] Building/installing OS X application bundles for GUIs - cabal-macosx

2010-02-24 Thread Eric Kow
in/geni # shell script that calls geni.app/Contents/MacOS/geni Again, not sure if that's the right thing to do, but it works for setups where you still expect cabal install GenI to work the same way as, say cabal install darcs, would. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.

[Haskell-cafe] Darcs fundraising 2010 - success!

2010-02-15 Thread Eric Kow
s larger donors. They also had some rather nice things to say about Darcs, so do have a look :-) Rah! Eric PS. Please let me know if you'd like to make a travel claim for ZuriHac -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 pg

[Haskell-cafe] Darcs fundraising 2010 - send us to ZuriHac! ($792 more by 15 Feb)

2010-02-08 Thread Eric Kow
mo. They can be mailed to Software Freedom Conservancy 1995 BROADWAY FL 17 NEW YORK NY 10023-5882 USA Donating by Paypal -- Please visit http://darcs.net/donations.html for more details. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.br

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Idea for a very simple GUI llibrary

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Kow
Hackage server" which should also be possible in principle, although the wxHaskell folks may want to have a quick look at http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/wxcore/0.12.1.2/logs/failure/ghc-6.10 -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9

[Haskell-cafe] getting ready to sprint! darcs: 14-15 Nov, Portland/Vienna

2009-11-08 Thread Eric Kow
nd me scribbling in a notebook. Or maybe Darcs Hackers gesticulating wildly in front a white board. See you there -- That's all for now. Please shout if you have any questions or last minute comments. Otherwise, I'm really excited about this and looking forward to seeing y

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Darcs Hacking Sprint - 14-15 November Vienna

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Kow
Conservancy makes it easy for open source projects to raise funds and hold assets (as part of a legal entity). For more information on supporting Darcs, see http://darcs.net/donations.html See you there! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 sig

[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANN: gitit 0.6.1

2009-08-25 Thread Eric Kow
ohn and Gwern, we were able to work through the initial web spider hiccups. It's great to be able to just darcs get --lazy http://wiki.darcs.net and go! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc De

[Haskell-cafe] Edinburgh Meetup (Sat 29 Aug) and Hack Day (Sun 30 Aug)

2009-08-14 Thread Eric Kow
ng. It'll help us to get an idea how many people will be there. See you soon! :-) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Has

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] cheap in-repo local branches (just needs implementation)

2009-07-22 Thread Eric Kow
m the idea of implementing a standalone tool, but it seems that darcs-branch could outsource any clever bits to the Darcs library (and that we'd have to think carefully through extensions to the Darcs library and not just hashed-storage to make this work). -- Eric Kow <ht

[Haskell-cafe] cheap in-repo local branches (just needs implementation)

2009-07-21 Thread Eric Kow
for multiple branches. Well, that's the general idea, at least. I believe that a willing volunteer and a bit of help from Petr could build such a tool "relatively quickly" and hopefully might even possibly work with today's darcs as it is. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.

[Haskell-cafe] Haskellers at University of Edinburgh? (hackathon)

2009-06-29 Thread Eric Kow
ping in in a wifi-enabled pub for the day). -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] who's up for a hackathon? (ICFP, late Aug, early Sept)

2009-06-10 Thread Eric Kow
on if it were to take place. 2. For rah-rah Hackathon to work, we need people! Could I get one kind (and local) soul to act as an organiser for this? Thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digita

[Haskell-cafe] code reviewers wanted for hashed-storage (darcs)

2009-06-02 Thread Eric Kow
darcs get http://repos.mornfall.net/hashed-storage For more information about his project, see http://web.mornfall.net/blog/summer_of_code.html Please get in touch with me if you can help. Thanks! Eric -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Ke

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint 2 and hac5 report

2009-04-24 Thread Eric Kow
t the Hackathon. We really enjoyed meeting everybody and hope to see you soon at the next event! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list H

[Haskell-cafe] Petr Ročkai's darcs project accepted for Haskell GSoC

2009-04-20 Thread Eric Kow
ions of darcs should make operations like darcs record and whatsnew much more comfortable in practice. Congratulations and good luck to Petr! And many thanks to the darcs and Haskell communities for their support. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9

[Haskell-cafe] Re: WX: linking to system libraries statically

2009-04-09 Thread Eric Kow
aries a nightmare. Is there a simple way to make a > (mostly) statically linked binary? -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mail

Re: [darcs-users] [Haskell-cafe] Reverting to any old version using Darcs

2009-04-05 Thread Eric Kow
f darcs, and should probably appear in some kind of darcs tips series of blog articles :-) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 pgpajaZ83hl21.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list H

[Haskell-cafe] darcs fundraising drive - THANK-YOU!

2009-03-16 Thread Eric Kow
cking sprint. This fundraising drive is over, but donations will still be gratefully accepted. In the long term, we hope to raise another $5000 to pay for a summer project ($4000) and also to pay for travel (another $1000) to the third hacking sprint this October or November. Again, thank-you! --

[Haskell-cafe] darcs fundraising drive - only $720 left to go!

2009-03-14 Thread Eric Kow
il or on #darcs! Otherwise, we accept Paypal :-) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 pgpYXMhGigKZ2.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.

[Haskell-cafe] Re: a newbies confusion with repositories - darcs or git

2009-03-07 Thread Eric Kow
we need to learn our way through darcs's guts. And I think we can do it. Thanks, Eric PS. We have started a fundraising effort to get folks to the darcs hacking sprint. More details on that shortly. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 pgp1

[Haskell-cafe] Google Summer of Code 2009 - mentors wanted!

2009-02-28 Thread Eric Kow
- * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017766.html * http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2009-February/017865.html -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Descript

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Kow
; What do you think about that? In addition to my previous suggestion that the students hang out in #darcs, maybe they could start some sort of blog detailing their progress, and with the occasional screenshot? It would be a great addition to the darcs planet: http://planet.darcs.net Thanks! --

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-21 Thread Eric Kow
told that mentoring is a very > time-consuming thing (and to my knowledge, you don’t get any payments > for that, at least for Haskell projects). While the darcs project would be grateful if you wanted to donate us your mentor payment, we certainly do not want to make you feel obliged to do s

[Haskell-cafe] darcs and Google Summer of Code

2009-02-18 Thread Eric Kow
more of you. Or if you're already planning on joining Hac5, come hack a little darcs while you're there! http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints/2009-04 Hope to see you soon, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.as

[Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] First release candidate of darcs 2.2.

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Kow
Coutts, Petr Ročkai, Gwern Branwen) * First stab at libdarcs -- when building through Cabal, all of darcs implementation is now exposed in modules. No API guarantees whatsoever. (Eric Kow) * Additions to Haddock documentation of the existing darcs modules for improved

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compilers

2008-11-30 Thread Eric Kow
drop source distributions anyone, binaries tend to work on a > much smaller set of systems, source can build against more library versions. The darcs team will always release a source tarball on its releases (the next one scheduled for mid January) Cheers, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compilers

2008-11-30 Thread Eric Kow
ween them and old-fashioned repostiories. On the other hand, interacting with the hashed repositories themselves requires a darcs 2 client. Thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] workarounds for Codec.Compression.Zlib errors in darcs

2008-11-27 Thread Eric Kow
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 14:38:33 +, Eric Kow wrote: > In principle, the same advice applies for Windows users, with more > details hopefully to follow on how the C libz in a GHC-accesible > location. Details to follow. As promised, here are the details for installing darcs usin

[Haskell-cafe] Re: workarounds for Codec.Compression.Zlib errors in darcs

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Kow
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 14:38:32 +, Eric Kow wrote: > Workaround 1 : use C libz instead of Haskell zlib > - > So how can you work around these errors? If you are building darcs on > any Unix-y operating system (e.g. Linux or MacOS

[Haskell-cafe] Re: workarounds for Codec.Compression.Zlib errors in darcs

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Kow
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 14:38:32 +, Eric Kow wrote: > Workaround 2 : fix your broken gzipped files > > If you have control over the repositories with broken gzipped files, it > should be possible to repair these files by gunzipping t

[Haskell-cafe] workarounds for Codec.Compression.Zlib errors in darcs

2008-11-26 Thread Eric Kow
roken files - detect the broken files and advise users to run darcs repair (or the script) as needed - somewhere in the future, disallow broken CRC files whilst still advising users on how to fix their files. Many thanks! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow>

[Haskell-cafe] announcing darcs 2.1.1rc2

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Kow
uired in a future version of darcs. -- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:17:00 GMT darcs (2.1.1rc1) * Portability: GHC 6.10.1 support (Petr Ročkai, Eric Kow) * Bug Fix: Fix file handle leak and check for exceptions on process running on Windows (issue784, Salvato

[Haskell-cafe] darcs hacking sprint TOMORROW!

2008-10-24 Thread Eric Kow
Hi all, Just pointing out that the darcs hacking sprint is taking place tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday 25-26 October)! Our Brighton and Portland venues are still open, so if you are thinking of dropping by, let us know :-) http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints Cheers, -- Eric Kow <h

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.1.0 (corrected!)

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Kow
ctober) is fast approaching! We have three venues available: Brighton, Paris and Portland and everybody is invited to come hack. See http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints for details. Thanks everybody, and enjoy! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08A

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.1.0

2008-10-09 Thread Eric Kow
tml/Sprints for details. Thanks everybody, and enjoy! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 darcs (2.1.0) -- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 09 Oct 2008 12:05:32 GMT * Bug Fix: Eliminate a 'same URLs with different parameters

[Haskell-cafe] announcing darcs 2.1.0pre3

2008-10-02 Thread Eric Kow
g repeated conflicts in darcs-2 repositories (issue1043, David Roundy) * New Feature: Hide 'Ignore-this:' lines which will be generated by future versions of darcs to prevent patch-id collisions. (issue1102, Eric Kow, David Roundy) * Bug Fix: Support darcs repositories which have sym

[Haskell-cafe] announcing darcs 2.1.0pre2

2008-09-25 Thread Eric Kow
filenames would be considered invalid under Windows. This can be overridden with the --reserved-ok flag (issue53, Eric Kow) * Bug Fix: Do not leave behind a half-gotten directory if darcs get fails (issue1041, Vlad Dogaru, David Roundy) * User Experience: notice when you are trying to p

[Haskell-cafe] announcing darcs 2.0.3pre1

2008-09-17 Thread Eric Kow
darcs-transfer mode - issue1039: detection of seemingly unrelated repositories (see http://bugs.darcs.net for details) In the meantime, please give darcs 2.0.3pre1 a try and let us know how things go! Thanks, -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08

[Haskell-cafe] Re: darcs hacking sprint, venues confirmed! (25-26 October)

2008-09-12 Thread Eric Kow
you wish to participate at the Paris venue, please notify Nicolas Pouillard at least one week in advance. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Haske

[Haskell-cafe] darcs weekly news #1

2008-08-27 Thread Eric Kow
s (69) -- 2008-08-25 Jason Dagit minor refator to get_extra improve comments 2008-08-25 Eric Kow Same ChangeLog entries since 2.0.2 Some more globally ignored changes. 2008-08-24 David Roundy Simplify filepath handling, cutting lots of hardly-used code. don't bother

[Haskell-cafe] poll: how can we help you contribute to darcs?

2008-08-01 Thread Eric Kow
Dear Haskellers, I would like to take an informal poll for the purposes of darcs recruitment. Could you please complete this sentence for me? "I would contribute to darcs if only..." The answers I am most interested in hearing go beyond "... I had more time". For instance, if you are contri

Re: [wxhaskell-users] [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: wxHaskell 0.10.3 rc1

2008-03-20 Thread Eric Kow
do have a potential mentor lined up, this being Kido Takahiro (shelarcy) -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Re: Avoiding boilerplate retrieving GetOpt

2007-07-27 Thread Eric Kow
> For starters, you could squish these down into something like > > flagToString :: Flag -> Maybe String > > flagToString (Filter s) = Just s > > flagToString (DateFormat s) = Just s > > ... > > flagToString _ = Nothing What am I saying?! This wouldn't

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] i need wxHaskell compiled for ghc 6.6.1 on Windows

2007-07-22 Thread Eric Kow
make wx-install -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Literate Haskell source files. How do I

2007-01-15 Thread Eric Kow
arcs, mind you. Maybe just browsing it in a text editor is simpler) -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français. literate-darcs.dpatch Description: Binary data ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Announce: Monad Transformer Tutorial

2006-10-09 Thread Eric Kow
stealing it for the wikibook as well. -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] does the compiler optimize repeated calls?

2006-09-06 Thread Eric Kow
tore" the result somewhere? I was wondering something like this too, and then I found this email: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-bugs/2004-December/004530.html So I guess it is as Stephane said: theoretically possible but not actually done? --eric the perpetua

Re: [Haskell-cafe] implementing a csv reader

2006-08-22 Thread Eric Kow
maybe even simple regular expressions. See: http://www.citeulike.org/faq/all.adp http://hal.inria.fr/index.php?langue=en -- Eric Kow http://www.loria.fr/~kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9 Merci de corriger mon français. ___ Haskell-Cafe