Re: [Haskell-cafe] Please help me spot where space leak occur.

2011-07-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Olexander Kozlov ookoz...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Haskell community, I stuck with a space leak problem in simple task. I have a function described with a list of pairs:    type Fn a b = [(a, b)] mapping values from a to b. And I have a composition operation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Failure to install Network.CGI

2011-07-18 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote: On 11-07-17 12:29 AM, william murphy wrote: command line: cannot satisfy -package-id network-2.3.0.2-24fdc6b92867c7236e81708f93cae7d0 Look at the output of ghc -v and be very horrified. The problem is not lacking

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Animas/Yampa: ArrowChoice?

2011-07-14 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ertugrul Soeylemez e...@ertes.de wrote: Hello all, I really like the way Animas (fork of Yampa) represents reactive systems, and I would love to write some of my simulations using it. Unfortunately most of what I want to do requires dynamic systems, which can

Re: [Haskell-cafe] NLP libraries and tools?

2011-07-10 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM, ivan vadovic p...@pobox.sk wrote: Hi, Also a library for string normalization in the sense of stripping diacritical marks would be handy too. Does anything in this respect exist that would be usable from haskell? The closest thing I know of is this:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for GUI examples - Functional Reactive Programming

2011-07-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Dear Haskellers, Can GUI programming be liberated from the IO monad? Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) promises as much, and I'm trying to make this dream a reality with my [reactive-banana][] library.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Call for GUI examples - Functional Reactive Programming

2011-07-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Jason Dagit wrote: Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: Do you know any *small GUI programs* that you would *like* to see *implemented with Functional Reactive Programming?* I would love to hear your examples, so

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-07 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/2011 21:19, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 06/07/11 17:14, David Barbour wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Jul 5, 2011 1:04 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:11:21PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: In GHCi it's a different matter, because the main thread is running GHCi itself, and all

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/07/2011 20:38, Jason Dagit wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 04/07/11 06:02, Jason Dagit wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get some GUI code working on OSX and numerous

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/2011 07:37, Jason Dagit wrote: On Jul 5, 2011 1:04 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com mailto:dag...@gmail.com wrote:     On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li mailto:ig...@earth.li wrote

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/2011 15:42, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 06/07/2011 07:37, Jason Dagit wrote: On Jul 5, 2011 1:04 PM, Jason Dagitdag...@gmail.com mailto:dag

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/2011 16:24, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 06/07/2011 15:42, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 17:14, David Barbour wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com mailto:marlo...@gmail.com wrote:    On 06/07/2011 15:42, Jason Dagit wrote:        How can I make sure my library

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/07/11 06:02, Jason Dagit wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get some GUI code working on OSX and numerous forums around the internet keep reiterating that on OSX to correctly handle GUI events you need to use

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:11:21PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: In GHCi it's a different matter, because the main thread is running GHCi itself, and all the expressions/statements typed at the prompt are run in forkIO'd threads

[Haskell-cafe] GUI Program Hangs in GHCI

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I have a GUI program that when I compile it and run it there are no problems. When I load it into GHCI and type, main, it loads the main window but there are no window decorations and the program hangs to the point where I have to kill the ghci process. You see a spinning cursor when you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GUI Program Hangs in GHCI

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a GUI program that when I compile it and run it there are no problems.  When I load it into GHCI and type, main, it loads the main window but there are no window decorations and the program hangs to the point

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GUI Program Hangs in GHCI

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a GUI program that when I compile it and run it there are no problems.  When I load it into GHCI and type, main, it loads the main

[Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I'm trying to get some GUI code working on OSX and numerous forums around the internet keep reiterating that on OSX to correctly handle GUI events you need to use the original thread allocated to your process to check for events and to call the Cocoa framework functionality. Specifically,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GUI Program Hangs in GHCI

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Alexander Solla alex.so...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a GUI program that when I compile it and run

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get some GUI code working on OSX and numerous forums around the internet keep reiterating that on OSX to correctly handle GUI events you need to use the original thread allocated to your process

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:31 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 3, 2011, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: to correctly handle GUI events you need to use the original thread allocated to your process to check for events and to call the Cocoa framework functionality. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to ensure code executes in the context of a specific OS thread?

2011-07-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: My second question is, if there is no current workaround then how can we remedy this situation?  It seems like there could be an api function

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation Failed: Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1-i386 for OS X

2011-06-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:33 AM, John Velman vel...@cox.net wrote: I'm running OS X 10.6.7, XCode 3.2.5.  When  I try to install The Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1 for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)  it goes all the way through to running package scripts, then says installation failed I did two

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Possible bug in GHC 7.0.3

2011-06-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: I have an 'impossible' happened error. The code may look a little bit convoluted but it is part of my real code.: I don't know why it's crashing, but did you already report it as a bug? If not, you definitely should.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Installation Failed: Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1-i386 for OS X

2011-06-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Tom Murphy amin...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/28/11, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'd try asking on StackOverflow.  I think the people who know the answer might be watching there instead of here. Really? I had thought that everyone who was on SO

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Can't use libraries in haskell

2011-06-26 Thread Jason Dagit
2011/6/26 Александр kommunist1...@mail.ru: Thank you, for reply. Yes i use ghc. First thing is to do 'ghc-pkg list'. If your package doesn't show up then it's not installed, according to the package registry. 'cabal install' should have registered it. If it is in the list, then it depends how

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?

2011-06-23 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Raeez Lorgat ra...@mit.edu wrote: If anyone is curious, I've posted a possible solution at the stack overflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6323755/osx-ghci-dylib-what-is-the-correct-way/6439016#6439016 I'd appreciate any feedback (and/or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with GLUT - no visuals found

2011-06-23 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Chris Smith cdsm...@gmail.com wrote: Answering my own question, apparently GLUT only doesn't work from within GHCi. Most GUI bindings in Haskell do not work correctly from GHCI. I've been trying (with lots of help from others) to get the GLFW-b bindings to be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problem with GLUT - no visuals found

2011-06-23 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Chris Smith cdsm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:50 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: What is your deadline for making sure you have a working library? I don't know... August?  In any case, I do now have a working library, so long as I remember

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Verifying Haskell programs vs. generating verified Haskell programs

2011-06-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Uli Kastlunger squar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Haskell fellows, recently there has been a huge progress in generating real programs by specifying them in interactive theorems prover like Isabelle or Coq, in particular a verified C Compiler has been generated

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Simple CSV parser?

2011-06-16 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Henning Thielemann lemm...@henning-thielemann.de wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Dmitri O.Kondratiev wrote: How to make cabal install all the dependencies? I couldn't find this in the docs at: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Cabal-Install Usually, 'cabal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?

2011-06-15 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/06/2011 17:57, Jason Dagit wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Simon Marlowmarlo...@gmail.com  wrote: On 12/06/2011 20:17, Jason Dagit wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Brandon Allberyallber

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?

2011-06-14 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/06/2011 20:17, Jason Dagit wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Brandon Allberyallber...@gmail.com  wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 14:31, Jason Dagitdag...@gmail.com  wrote: If I build the C library

[Haskell-cafe] OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?

2011-06-12 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I also asked this question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6323755/osx-ghci-dylib-what-is-the-correct-way I wonder where I'll get more/better answers? Read on for the question. Thanks! Jason I need to build some C code and then reference that C code via the FFI. I would like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] OSX, ghci, dylib, what is the correct way?

2011-06-12 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Brandon Allbery allber...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 14:31, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: If I build the C library as a .a, then ghci comlains that it cannot open the .dylib.  My first question is: Why does ghci need a .dylib and does

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell Platform natively for 64bit Windows

2011-06-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Too bad GHC doesn't support inline assembly yet... (Or does it? I know it supports inline Core now.) Really? I found this in the manual so I think either the docs need to be updated or you are mistaken:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell Platform natively for 64bit Windows

2011-06-08 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Nicu Ionita nicu.ion...@acons.at wrote: Yes, I was a little bit unclear, I wanted to say: the generated code does not use the 64 bit instructions (i.e. 1 instruction for .., for example). Of course, it works, but I suppose, much slower then it could (3-4 times,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell Platform natively for 64bit Windows

2011-06-06 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Nicu Ionita nicu.ion...@acons.at wrote: Am 23.05.2011 13:32, schrieb Simon Marlow: On 18/05/2011 19:22, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM, John Sneerjohnsn...@operamail.com  wrote: Hello all,  I know it is not probably good question

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Oracle Sessions in Takusen

2011-06-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Dmitry Olshansky olshansk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Could anyone explain strange behavior of Takusen with OracleDB (OraClient 11.x)? Several sequential sessions give Seqmentation Fault error. In case of nested sessions it works well. I'm CC'ing the takusen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Oracle Sessions in Takusen

2011-06-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm CC'ing the takusen email list so that Oleg and Alistair will see your message.  They are more familiar with the Oracle support than I am. I should really link to the original message: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell School of Expression (graphics)

2011-06-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Jerzy Karczmarczuk jerzy.karczmarc...@unicaen.fr wrote: Henk-Jan van Tuyl commenting Andrew Coppin ... (about HOpenGL and H.Platform) ... Uh... yes, you might be right about that. However, AFAIK you still need something with which to create a rendering

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Computing the memory footprint of a HashMap ByteString Int (Was: How on Earth Do You Reason about Space?)

2011-06-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Aleksandar Dimitrov aleks.dimit...@googlemail.com wrote: One additional thought: it might be interesting to provide this outside of this mailing list, perhaps as a documentation

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Enterprise Haskell -- help

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Srinivasan Balram srinivasan_bal...@marlabs.com wrote: folks: I was advised to post this request here. This is about needs of daily-grind enterprise development. Enterprise developers need 3 categories of books in Haskell urgently:  (i) Haskell (CookBooks /

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Enterprise Haskell -- help

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Clint Moore cl...@ivy.io wrote:  While it's not a solution (yet) for a book, would a section or special section in the wiki be appropriate at least in the beginning?  Our small company has been collecting cookbook-like recipies and best practices for a while

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Enterprise Haskell -- help

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Gaius Hammond ga...@gaius.org.uk wrote: On 26 May 2011, at 19:22, Clint Moore wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:57:42AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: Database connectivity is a weakspot still.  Haskell developers don't seem to use databases nearly as often

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Policy for taking over a package on Hackage

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2011 08:49, wren ng thornton w...@freegeek.org wrote: On 5/25/11 1:03 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:59 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com  wrote: Well,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Enterprise Haskell -- help

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Gaius Hammond ga...@gaius.org.uk wrote: On 26 May 2011, at 21:34, Jason Dagit wrote: On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Gaius Hammond ga...@gaius.org.uk wrote: Over in OCaml-land, I have taken it upon myself to address this: http://gaiustech.github.com/ociml

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GOA broken with recent lambdabots

2011-05-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Christopher Done chrisd...@googlemail.com wrote: On 24 May 2011 10:05, Jacek Generowicz jacek.generow...@cern.ch wrote: GOA is broken with recent lambdabots, according to    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/goa-3.0.2 It certainly fails to compile for me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell Platform natively for 64bit Windows

2011-05-23 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:32 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/05/2011 19:22, Jason Dagit wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM, John Sneerjohnsn...@operamail.com  wrote: Hello all,  I know it is not probably good question to this list, but anyway,  could anyone point me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Support for OpenGL comes in different levels of quality, as I'm discovering.  It would seem that Mesa (ie., linux support), only officially supports OpenGL 2.1 [1] despite being released on 6 April 2011.  I haven't been

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Status of Haskell + Mac + GUIs graphics

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I still haven't found any way to do GUIs or interactive graphics in Haskell on a Mac that isn't plagued one or more of the following serious problems: * Incompatible with ghci, e.g., fails to make a window frame or kills the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Building Haskell Platform natively for 64bit Windows

2011-05-18 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:50 AM, John Sneer johnsn...@operamail.com wrote: Hello all,  I know it is not probably good question to this list, but anyway,  could anyone point me to some more detailed how to where is  described building of Haskell Platform natively to 64bit Windows? If you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] opening windows on a mac via ghci?

2011-05-17 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: Has anyone figured out a way to get libraries that open windows to work with ghci? With libraries like glut I get the body of a window, but no frame, and the process wedges. I guess the problem has to do with lack of .app

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Using cmake with haskell

2011-05-13 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Yves Parès limestr...@gmail.com wrote: Talking about that, what are the differences between cabal-install and cabal-dev? Is cabal-dev (which I've never used nor installed) more suited for incremental development? Cabal-dev is a wrapper around caba-install

Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal-latest

2011-05-13 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Guy guytsalmave...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/cabal-latest/ points to version 1.8.0.4. Is this correct? Replying to this on Haskell-Cafe and cabal-dev lists. The latest version is 1.10.x and ships with the HP. I bet that link is

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Using cmake with haskell

2011-05-12 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Gregory Crosswhite gcr...@phys.washington.edu wrote: [snip] 1) Cabal is a tool that can only be used to build Haskell packages with some supporting C/C++ code thrown in and 2) Cabal is currently the only tool that can realistically be used to properly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] No fish, please

2011-05-12 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Don Stewart don...@gmail.com wrote: No, you should be using Haddock. If you wish to generate docs some other way, you are free to host that on your own site, and link to it from the Hackage page. Or improve haddock if you think it's lacking something.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Proposal to incorporate Haskell.org

2011-05-11 Thread Jason Dagit
I would like to add a big thank you to everyone involved and a huge thanks to the SFC. I believe this move is the right one and it will be tremendously valuable to the community going forward. Thanks! On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Don Stewart don...@gmail.com wrote: The intent is that all

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Apache license, any drawbacks for Haskell packages?

2011-05-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: Are there any drawbacks to using the Apache license for Haskell packages? I don't think so. It looks to be almost identical to using BSD3, which is already quite popular for haskellers. This seems like a good write

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Advertisement: the Haskell Stack Overflow Q A site

2011-05-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Don Stewart don...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, I thought I'd just make a quick advertisement for the Haskell Stack Overflow community: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell as a forum for questions and answers on beginner to advanced Haskell

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GLUT error while using Gloss

2011-05-02 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:29 AM, Artyom Kazak artyom.ka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Cafe! When I'm running examles from Gloss graphics library, all examples except gloss-hello are crashing with the following error: GLUT: Warning in gloss-easy: GL error: gloss-easy: stderr: hPutChar: invalid

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Andrew Pennebaker andrew.penneba...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the tip. GHC 7.0.3 does seem to fix a couple bugs, and maybe even run faster than GHC 7.0.2. But it doesn't solve the problem. It's hard to help because I still don't know what problem you're

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai tre...@vex.net wrote: Perhaps the linker ran out of memory. I don't think so. In my experience, when gnu ld crashes from out of memory it gets a segfault, which translates to error code 9, (or was it 11?), and then cabal will print ExitFailure

Re: [Haskell-cafe] -- Extension for Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird, 2010, page 25 #Haskell

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
Do you have a question for the group or something you want to discuss? On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:50 PM, cas...@istar.ca wrote: -- Extension for Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird, -- 2010, page 25 #Haskell -- This version assumes 3 disjoint ordered sets represented as

Re: [Haskell-cafe] HipmunkPlayground compile error

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:38 AM, Andrew Pennebaker andrew.penneba...@gmail.com wrote: $ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep System Version System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.7 (10J869) $ ghc --version The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.0.2 $ cabal --version

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does Cabal not choose the latest package?

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Emil Axelsson e...@chalmers.se wrote: Hello! I've had some of the usual problems with packages depending on multiple versions of another package. It seems the root of the hole problem was that I once attempted to run cabal install cabal-install This

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A small Darcs anomoly

2011-04-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 April 2011 13:16, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: 2. I have no idea how to make Darcs do the thing with hard links (is that even supported under Windows?) I just copy the whole

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A small Darcs anomoly

2011-04-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: I've discovered something interesting. Darcs stores history as a partially-ordered set of changes. This is a beautiful and elegant idea. In theory, this lets me apply any combination of changes, possibly

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: I'm sure this must be a VFAQ, but... There seems to be universal agreement that Darcs is a nice idea, but is unsuitable for real projects. Even GHC keeps talking about getting rid of Darcs. Can anybody tell me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question about the Monad instance for Iteratee (from the enumerator package)

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:36 AM, John A. De Goes j...@n-brain.net wrote: This is a much cleaner definition of Iteratee and I'm happy to see it. I'm confused by this comment. Isn't John Lato's implementation of Iteratee (on hackage) is based on the example implementation that Oleg pointed you

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why not Darcs?

2011-04-21 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, John Millikin jmilli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:16:07 PM UTC-7, John Meacham wrote: Um, the patch theory is what makes darcs just work. There is no need to understand it any more than you have to know VLSI design to understand how your

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Assimp FFI Library

2011-04-11 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Joel Burget joelbur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been working on an ffi library for the Assimp asset import library( http://assimp.sourceforge.net). It should be useful for people doing graphics in Haskell. I've been working on it so I can import models

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
* add support for opengl 4.x * look at adding deprecation pragmas for deprecated opengl calls * new hackage releases * anything else that comes up Thanks, Jason On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I sent the message below to Haskell-Cafe about a week ago. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-04-06 Thread Jason Dagit
#57 and #58 that make a case for removing OpenGL and GLUT entirely from the platform. Tickets #57 and #58 seem to be old though. If you have more information or I overlooked something, please let me know :) Thanks, Jason On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Problems porting ghc6-6.10.1 to GNU/Hurd using 6.8.2

2011-04-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Svante Signell svante.sign...@telia.comwrote: On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 09:43 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to upgrade Debian GNU/Hurd ghc6.8.2 to 6.10.1 (and further from there, due to requirements of ghc and haddock versions), and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Fast conversion between Vector Double and Vector CDouble

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the clarification Daniel. I just read[1] it's also possible to directly use Double and Float in an FFI import declaration. I always assumed you could only use the C types from Foreign.C.Types. So I think

[Haskell-cafe] Using _ on the RHS of an equation?

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
I think I got this idea from JHC, but I'm unable to find it documented in the JHC manual at the moment. The idea is that when _ appears on the RHS of an equation it is another name for undefined. Here is a hypothetical example, inspired by code I've seen in FFI definitions: \begin{code} {-#

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Using _ on the RHS of an equation?

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com wrote: On 4 April 2011 22:42, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: Is this something people would be interested in having as an extension in GHC? Or is it just too fluffy for anyone to really care? I wish for having

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings on hackage. These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 and use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2. This package should be of interest to OpenGL users as it provides a way to get nice looking fonts

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

2011-04-03 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings on hackage. These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 and use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2. This package should

Re: [Haskell-cafe] A maintenance command of Haskell cabal packages

2011-03-31 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Kazu Yamamoto k...@iij.ad.jp wrote: whoah, it has uninstall!!! awesome! It just unregisters libraries not delete them actually. But I guess it is enough for you. The cabal-delete command does delete libraries and I'm planning to integrate cab and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Encoding-aware System.Directory functions

2011-03-30 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Michael Snoyman mich...@snoyman.comwrote: Hi all, I think this is a well-known issue: it seems that there is no character decoding performed on the values returned from the functions in System.Directory (getDirectoryContents specifically). I could manually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Excerpts from Jason Dagit's message of Tue Mar 29 00:43:10 -0400 2011: I was reading up on the documentation for alloca and friends[1], which says, If any of the allocation functions fails, a value of nullPtr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] SoC / Cabal project proposal: specify Setup.hs dependencies

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Edward Kmett ekm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.comwrote: I've been wanting to share code between cabal projects for some time, and I finally had a chance to write up the rough idea as a simple proposal.

[Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
I was reading up on the documentation for alloca and friends[1], which says, If any of the allocation functions fails, a value of nullPtrhttp://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/libraries/base-4.3.1.0/Foreign-Ptr.html#v:nullPtr is produced. It seems like every example of FFI code that I find

Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to best deal with nullPtr from alloca and friends?

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Jason Dagit dag...@gmail.com wrote: I'm on a 64bit version of windows here with more than 4GB of memory to spare for the GHC process. Unfortunately, allocaBytes takes an Int so I can't test it with a request larger than the amount of physical ram I have

[Haskell-cafe] Unboxing CFloat and GLfloat

2011-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
First a bit of background. Sometimes I would like to be able to create unboxed arrays of CFloats and GLfloats. Both of these are defined as newtypes around types that can be unboxed (e.g., Float). I'm assuming GHC here. As far as I can tell, the newtyping is there to help programmers pick a

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCEMENT: nehe-tuts 0.2.0, new release

2011-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
What is the nehe-tuts package? In 1999 Jeff Molofee, aka NeHe, wrote a series of tutorials on how to get started with basic OpenGL. In 2005, I ported the code for these tutorial pages to Haskell. You can find NeHe's original tutorials here: http://nehe.gamedev.net/default.asp Since that time,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Blocking problem reading a handle

2011-03-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Daniel Díaz danield...@asofilak.es wrote: Hi, cafe, all I want is to read the unread portion of a handle, without blocking waiting for an EOF or a newline. My first attempt was to try with hGetBufNonBlocking from System.IO, and other functions that use it in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Help optimising a Haskell program

2011-03-22 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:11 AM, David MacIver da...@drmaciver.com wrote: On 22 March 2011 02:00, Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 00:59, David MacIver da...@drmaciver.com wrote: It's for rank aggregation - taking a bunch of partial

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trac login problem

2011-03-19 Thread Jason Dagit
I've experienced very similar problems several times on both the ghc and cabal trac instances. I think resetting your password is (or was) breaking accounts. Now I just stick to guest login accounts on all the haskell.org trac instances. Ideally, all the trac instances, haskell wiki and etc,

[Haskell-cafe] How to contact OpenGL package maintainer (where is Sven?)

2011-03-17 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, It looks like the OpenGL packages on hackage[1,2,3,4] have not been updated in some time. No updates later than Oct 2009. I tried to email Sven directly using the email address listed on hackage but after about a week I still haven't heard from him. I sent some patches to the opengl

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen and QuickCheck

2011-01-26 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Dmitry Olshansky olshansk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I have a problem with using Takusen in my current project because it uses old QuickCheck 1.*. This leads to conflict with other packages which use QuickCheck 2.*. Could someone help me to decide this

Re: [Haskell-cafe] DFAs and self-referential data

2010-12-28 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 3:09 AM, o...@okmij.org wrote: Maxime Henrion wrote: I've been playing with some code to work with DFAs, but I'm now faced with an implementation problem. In order to have states that can transition to themselves, it seems I would need self-referential data;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Misleading MVar documentation

2010-12-24 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Merry Christmas all! Is it just me, or does the Control.Concurrent.MVar documentation seem a bit misleading? In particular, we should explicitly note the race conditions for not just swapMVar but also readMVar, withMVar,

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

2010-12-22 Thread Jason Dagit
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: On 22/12/2010 11:08 AM, Eric Kow wrote: Andrew, Thanks for your report. Indeed, please direct future reports to darcs-users or b...@darcs.net That would require me to sign up to yet another mailing list just

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs failure

2010-12-21 Thread Jason Dagit
This question is more appropriate on the darcs-users mailing list. I've CC'd your message there. Jason On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: I'm running a VM with Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). I installed Darcs 2.4.4 using apt-get, but it keeps

[Haskell-cafe] The Monad Reader links are broken

2010-12-11 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, I noticed today that the links in this article point to Haskell.org and they are broken: http://themonadreader.wordpress.com/previous-issues/ Maybe someone can fix this? Thanks! Jason ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] the beginning of the end

2010-12-05 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allb...@ece.cmu.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/4/10 21:35 , Jason Dagit wrote: In that case, here you go: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/216043045.rss http://twitter.com/statuses

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