Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-02 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:44 AM, aditya siram aditya.si...@gmail.comwrote: Why are the Takusen module links on Hackage dead? I would also like to take this opportunity to request a Takusen tutorial and to thank you for this innovative library.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-02 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Alistair Bayley wrote: We've put some effort into supporting older versions of ghc... Are there any distros still shipping with ghc-6.6? There are so many distros out there that it is hard to say no. But Debian, which tends to be very conservative, has not had a supported version with GHC 6.6

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-02 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Jason Dagit wrote: There you go for a starter tutorial. Thanks Jason, that's a great start. It already goes a long way towards making Takusen more accessible. I noticed that QuickCheck is still a dependency. That's not a good idea. It creates a lot of dependency problems, and most of the time

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-02 Thread Jason Dagit
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote: Jason Dagit wrote: There you go for a starter tutorial. Thanks Jason, that's a great start. It already goes a long way towards making Takusen more accessible. I noticed that QuickCheck is still a dependency. That's not a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread David Anderson
Congrats on the release. Just one humble suggestion: your email assumes that the reader already knows what Takusen is. Reading the email, all I can infer is that it has something to do with databases, because of the ODBC reference. The only link in the email also does nothing to explain, since it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David Anderson d...@natulte.net wrote: Congrats on the release. Just one humble suggestion: your email assumes that the reader already knows what Takusen is. Reading the email, all I can infer is that it has something to do with databases, because of the ODBC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread aditya siram
Why are the Takusen module links on Hackage dead? I would also like to take this opportunity to request a Takusen tutorial and to thank you for this innovative library. -deech On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:10 AM, David

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Don Stewart
aditya.siram: Why are the Takusen module links on Hackage dead? Hmm. The links look fine: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Takusen-0.8.6 this opportunity to request a Takusen tutorial and to thank you for this ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread aditya siram
I meant the links to the API docs. -deech [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Takusen/0.8.6/doc/html/Database-ODBC-Enumerator.html On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: aditya.siram: Why are the Takusen module links on Hackage dead? Hmm. The links

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread austin seipp
A reasonable guess (I think, anyway): the reason is because support for ODBC, Oracle, Postgres etc isn't compiled in by default. You have to specify it with a flag with cabal install to get support for those things. But the reason they show up in API docs I would guess is because Haddock doesn't

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Don Stewart
I think it is just the ODBC backend that didn't generate http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Takusen/0.8.6/doc/html/Database-Enumerator.html Likely because the required C libs are not on Hackage, so that backend wasn't built. aditya.siram: I meant the links to the API docs.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread austin seipp
Hi Jason, I've had my eye on the 'Takusen' approach for a while. In particular I think it's a wonderful idea to use the left-fold based interface. Takusen is also well supported and pretty stable, having been around for a while. Despite this, it seems to have a couple faults: * Few tutorials,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Gregory Crosswhite
On 8/1/10 12:12 PM, austin seipp wrote: Hi Jason, I've had my eye on the 'Takusen' approach for a while. In particular I think it's a wonderful idea to use the left-fold based interface. Takusen is also well supported and pretty stable, having been around for a while. I agree; in fact, I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Alistair Bayley
At the risk of seeming a bit defensive, I'll respond to some of these points... Despite this, it seems to have a couple faults:  * Few tutorials, aside from the Haddocks in Database.Enumerator True. I put a bit of effort in to writing the docs in Database.Enumerator as a sort of tutorial, but

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Dagit
Using the generous resources of community.haskell.org I've created a mailing list for takusen discussions. I encourage interested parties to join that list and maybe move the takusen design discussion there: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/takusen I've added the list in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Felipe Lessa
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: This same issues comes up fairly often on the darcs-users mailing list.  My understanding of the way things are handled there, is that if there is ever a good reason to drop support for a version of GHC then the person who

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Felipe Lessa felipe.le...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: This same issues comes up fairly often on the darcs-users mailing list. My understanding of the way things are handled there, is that if there

[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Takusen 0.8.6

2010-07-31 Thread Jason Dagit
Hello, The Takusen team would like to announce the latest release of Takusen, 0.8.6. This is primarily a bug fix and test suite enhancement release. The most notable new feature is limited support for string encodings with ODBC. The full list of changes is included at the at the end of this