jgoerzen: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:52:48 +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > > > With the upcoming hackathon[1], and its timely focus on real world > > libraries, infrastructure and tools support, I've started a list of > > truly missing libraries, for particular problem domains. > > > > If you have a problem, for which you think there *should* be a Haskell > > library, please add it to this page: > > > > http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Wanted_libraries > > I have misplaced my haskellwiki login right now, but... > > Under section 2: > > MissingH already provides a whole slew of forking/popen code; see > http://software.complete.org/missingh/static/doc/System-Cmd-Utils.html > > In particular, you seem to be wanting my pipeBoth function. > > Note that your proposed String -> IO String function type is insufficient > because it does not provide a way to evaluate the return value of the > function.
this kind of functionality seems to be expected by new users (its one of the more common questions on #haskell). Is System.Cmd.Utils in a position to be moved into base alongside System.Cmd and System.Process? It seems quite fundamental for getting work done quickly for script-like haskell programs. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
