Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How many "Haskell Engineer I/II/III"s are there?

2010-02-11 Thread Praki Prakash
I am working on an analytics server with a web front end. Being a personal endeavor at this time, I can choose any language that I fancy. I love Haskell and have achieved a modicum of proficiency with many years of following along. I spent a few weeks of serious Haskell prototyping and came to the

[Haskell-cafe] Need some ideas to map XML Schema types to Haskell types

2009-02-15 Thread Praki Prakash
Hi, I need to work with a web service that has a few thousand types in its schema. I am trying to automate the generation of data types and serializers from the schema. My first thought was to map each data type to a Haskell record and generate pickle methods thereafter for serialziation/deseriali

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Praki Prakash
Don, Thanks for the hint. I removed Setup.hs and tried "cabal build". I get an error that build type is custom and Setup.lhs is missing. What is the magical incantation needed to do the default build? Thanks Praki On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Don Stewart wrote: > praki.prakash: >> I am tr

[Haskell-cafe] Takusen 0.8.3 install problems

2009-01-31 Thread Praki Prakash
I am trying to install Takusen 0.8.3 with ghc 6.10.1 on Ubuntu 8.04 (same issue on Win XP as well). I get the following complaint from cabal. Module `Distribution.PackageDescription' does not export `writeHookedBuildInfo' cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: Takusen-0.8.3 fai

[Haskell-cafe] Unboxing VT_VARIANT in hscom

2008-08-18 Thread Praki Prakash
I am a Haskell newbie trying to do COM automation using Haskell. I am using hscom (Krasimir's implementation of COM automation). I have run into a problem and need some help. I have a Variant returned from a COM method invocation. When I print it, it shows up as below. Variant VT_DISPATCH I nee