Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-11 Thread Sven Panne
[ Moving this thread slowly to the libraries list... ] Bjorn Bringert wrote: John Goerzen wrote: My apologies if this sounds like a bit of a rant; I know people put good effort into this, but The Network.CGI module in fptools (and GHC) is not very useful. I think that it should be remove

Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-03 Thread Bjorn Bringert
John Goerzen wrote: My apologies if this sounds like a bit of a rant; I know people put good effort into this, but The Network.CGI module in fptools (and GHC) is not very useful. I think that it should be removed or re-tooled. Here are the main problems with it: 1. It does not permit cust

Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread Josef Svenningsson
ehalf Of Jeremy Shaw > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:55 AM > To: John Goerzen > Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org > Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless > > Hello, > > I have done all of those things in WASH. But, don't let that stop you > from writing

RE: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread Conal Elliott
half Of Jeremy Shaw Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 10:55 AM To: John Goerzen Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless Hello, I have done all of those things in WASH. But, don't let that stop you from writing something better :) I think some people started

Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread Niklas Broberg
Shameless plug warning. > >From what I can tell, there are two problems with WASH: > > 1) Everything must be done the WASH way > > 2) WASH is mostly broken with GHC 6.4 > > Let me elaborate a bit on #1. > > Let's say I have a CGI interface pre-defined; I take certain parameters > from a GET re

Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 10:54:54AM -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: > Hello, > > I have done all of those things in WASH. But, don't let that stop you > from writing something better :) I think some people started a project > to write a CGI interface based on a 'Category' -- where a 'Category' > is like

Re: [Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread Jeremy Shaw
Hello, I have done all of those things in WASH. But, don't let that stop you from writing something better :) I think some people started a project to write a CGI interface based on a 'Category' -- where a 'Category' is like an 'Arrow' without the 'pure/arr' function... Jeremy Shaw. At Wed, 1 Ju

[Haskell-cafe] CGI module almost useless

2005-06-01 Thread John Goerzen
My apologies if this sounds like a bit of a rant; I know people put good effort into this, but The Network.CGI module in fptools (and GHC) is not very useful. I think that it should be removed or re-tooled. Here are the main problems with it: 1. It does not permit custom generation of outpu