On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:57:52AM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were
> hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After
> all, how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two
> centuries?)
What haskell really needs is a big ' hit' where someone shows how powerful
haskell is in some environment.
Ruby had RoR, which is what splurged the language into the open
On 22/08/2010 3:46 PM, "wren ng thornton" wrote:
Daniel Fischer wrote:
>
> On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar M
Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
A Bazillion is an imaginary number meant to indicate something extremely
large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazillion#-illion
Yes, but 'extremely large' numbers mean different things, depending on
whether
> I wonder... How many people are actually working on Cabal?
>
> When I first started using Haskell, I got the impression that there were
> hundreds, maybe even thousands, of developers working on GHC. (After all,
> how else could you write such a huge codebase in less than two centuries?)
> But no
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Since the population of the planet is roughly 6 Billion, I would guess
that Andrew is under the miscomprehension that aliens make up the vast
majority of Haskell users.
Let's face it, Haskell *does* look like a technology invented by an
alien intelligence immesurab
On Saturday 21 August 2010 15:35:08, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>
> A Bazillion is an imaginary number meant to indicate something extremely
> large: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazillion#-illion
Yes, but 'extremely large' numbers mean different things, depending on
whether we talk about for e
Daniel Fischer writes:
> On Saturday 21 August 2010 14:57:26, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> > Andrew Coppin writes:
>> >> So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
>> >> other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
>> >
On Saturday 21 August 2010 14:57:26, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> > Andrew Coppin writes:
> >> So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
> >> other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
> >> them? Or is it just two blokes
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin writes:
So now I wonder about Darcs, Cabal, Haddock, Hackage, and all those
other big projects. Do they really have a bazillion people working on
them? Or is it just two blokes in their spare time? (And, more
importantly, how do you find out?)
Andrew Coppin writes:
> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> Andrew Coppin writes:
>>
>>> (Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these
>>> things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already
>>> experts on the subject haven't been able to fix it yet, it mus
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Andrew Coppin writes:
(Unless you're suggesting that I should try to actually *fix* these
things. The way I figure it, if an army of developers who are already
experts on the subject haven't been able to fix it yet, it must be
extremely hard, and so there's no wa
Andrew Coppin writes:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
>> Yup, there's a ticket for it.
>>
>
> In fact, there appears to be a ticket for every single thing I
> originally mentioned. And they're all ancient tickets too. So,
> yeah... nothing to do here.
>
> (Unless you're suggesting that I should try to
wren ng thornton wrote:
Andrew Coppin wrote:
I guess I just figured that since Cabal is used by hundreds of
millions of people every single day, any little glitches I might have
come across have already been seen by at least 1,000 people before me
(and hence, the developers already know about
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
Quite cool that :)
It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to do, but this is the first time
I've ever seen it happen. I don't know wha
Duncan Coutts writes:
> On 19 August 2010 21:15, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>> Daniel Fischer wrote:
>
>>> Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
>>> index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
>>> Quite cool that :)
>>>
>>
>> It's something I've always _
On 19 August 2010 21:15, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Daniel Fischer wrote:
>> Yes, when cabal runs haddock on a package, it generates a comprehensive
>> index if none is present or expands it with the new docs.
>> Quite cool that :)
>>
>
> It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to do, but this is t
On Thursday 19 August 2010 22:15:59, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
> It's something I've always _wanted_ Cabal to do, but this is the first
> time I've ever seen it happen. I don't know what particularly I did to
> make this happen, and now it seems to be gone, so...
>
Hm, I just renamed my ~/.cabal/shar
Andrew Coppin wrote:
I guess I just figured that since Cabal is used by hundreds of millions
of people every single day, any little glitches I might have come across
have already been seen by at least 1,000 people before me (and hence,
the developers already know about it and just haven't had t
Duncan Coutts wrote:
On 18 August 2010 18:13, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Then again, all the links were broken anyway. They all had paths like
"C:\Program Files\Haskell\...whatever", and Mozilla apparently expects them
to say "file://C:/Program Files/Haskell/...whatever". It kept whining that
"th
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
On 19 August 2010 03:13, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
Fair enough. Howe
Daniel Fischer wrote:
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:13:48, Andrew Coppin wrote:
On that note, I just remembered something else: During the course of
playing with all this Cabal stuff, I discovered that I had somehow
acquired a global package index. As in, an HTML file that links to the
docum
On 19 August 2010 03:13, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Ben Millwood wrote:
>>
>> I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
>> off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
>> everything three times nowadays :)
>>
>
> Fair enough. However, having documentation off
On 18 August 2010 18:13, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Then again, all the links were broken anyway. They all had paths like
> "C:\Program Files\Haskell\...whatever", and Mozilla apparently expects them
> to say "file://C:/Program Files/Haskell/...whatever". It kept whining that
> "the C:\ protocol is n
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:13:48, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Ben Millwood wrote:
> > I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
> > off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
> > everything three times nowadays :)
>
> Fair enough. However, having document
Ben Millwood wrote:
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
Fair enough. However, having documentation off by default is just
annoying...
On that note, I just rem
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Evan Laforge wrote:
> I was trying to turn on --global by default
user-install: False
I think it's not completely a stupid idea to have profiling default
off. I personally do not really enjoy the fact that I compile
everything three times nowadays :)
> It sounds to me like your life would be a lot easier if you knew about
> cabal-install's root-cmd configuration parameter! Open your
> .cabal/config file and uncomment and set:
>
> root-cmd: sudo
I didn't know about this either. As an aside, is the cabal config
file documented at all? I haven'
Ben Millwood wrote:
It sounds to me like your life would be a lot easier if you knew about
cabal-install's root-cmd configuration parameter! Open your
.cabal/config file and uncomment and set:
root-cmd: sudo
Now cabal-install will take up root permissions when and only when necessary :)
I only
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Andrew Coppin
wrote:
> The amusing part is, if you "sudo cabal
> install" so it has permission to put the installed files into place, it then
> uses root's configuration file instead. *sigh* Well anyway, I managed to
> work around that. But... Cabal *still* fails t
And so today, just for giggles, I tried to get Sifflet to work. Along
the way, I encountered a number of... "glitches", if you will.
First of all, I tried to get it to work on Windows. I fired up a new
Windows VM and installed Haskell Platform 2010.1.0.0. It seems that
(finally) this includes
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