Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Platform, Hackage and Cabal : The 2nd Year : Status Report

2010-10-01 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:29:32PM +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > >The slides are here: > > > > > > http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/hackage-cabal-and-the-haskell-platform-the-second-year/ > > And the video is here: > http://www.vimeo.com/15462768 And is there any way to just *down

Re: [Haskell-cafe] "Introducing The Monads" Presentation Slides

2010-09-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:54:29PM -0500, aditya siram wrote: > Slides shared and Reddited! Feedback is very welcome! > > http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/dfazp/introducing_the_monads_a_practical_tour_of/ Oh, come on. A site where you need a flash player to download (or view) a PDF? This

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-28 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 01:14:44PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > And as Luke Palmer suggests, perhaps you can ignore/filter these discussions > that you do not enjoy :) Or just unsubscribe, like I did. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

2010-03-05 Thread Matthias Kilian
if *your* code is BSD3 or ISC or something similar. But nobody can force you to apply a specific license to your *source code*, even if the binary (links against/calls functions provided by) a GPL'd library. Oh, and for the discussion about wether APIs may be license-worth, which also popped up i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GPL answers from the SFLC (WAS: Re: ANN: hakyll-0.1)

2010-03-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:34:24AM -0600, Tom Tobin wrote: > [...] The SFLC holds that a > library that depends on a GPL'd library must in turn be GPL'd, even if > the library is only distributed as source and not in binary form. Was this a general statement or specific to the fact that (at least

Re: [Haskell-cafe] listing mountpoints and getting their properties in Haskell

2010-02-28 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 06:27:19PM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > I don't know of any Haskell bindings offhand, but getmntent() and > friends are the standard library interface for identifying mountpoints > and statfs()/statvfs() are the interface for getting information about > the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell Weekly News

2009-10-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:46:15PM +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: > 2) Instead of posting separately to the Haskell and Haskell-Cafe > mailing lists, it might be better to cross-post, since that way, > readers using newsreaders can have the cross-posted article > automatically marked "read" in th

[Haskell-cafe] (mostly OT) Strange patterns of commas

2009-09-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
Fibonacci numbers are always surprising. Try this on a terminal that's 159 characters wide (using a properly sized xterm(1) may be a good idea): let f = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) f (tail f) in take 780 f Ciao, Kili -- There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make i

[Haskell-cafe] (weird stuff) Kernel Modules in Haskell ;-)

2009-09-15 Thread Matthias Kilian
A fellow openbsd developer told me the URL below... I hope this hasn't been posted on this list already (at least I didn't find it in my local archives): http://tommd.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/kernel-modules-in-haskell/ Ciao, Kili -- Logging should be in debug mode only. If every netw

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: "Standard C" available in cabal package

2009-01-30 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 09:40:02PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > > > POSIX? > > > > Is that portable for non-unix? I think cabal > > does work on some non-unix systems. > > > Even windows provides POSIX, it's _the_ C standard. If you are going to > find a common set of C functions, that'll be i

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The Haskell re-branding exercise

2008-12-21 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:23:33PM -0800, Don Stewart wrote: > Would you be willing to set up a little online voting system (or do you > know of one) so we can implement this? > > Assume there'll be < 10 candidates. What about www.doodle.com? Ciao, Kili __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Time for a new logo?

2008-12-17 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:34:15PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: > - I very much like the concept of this. It's clean, simple, elegant. > Like Haskell! But Haskell isn't Clean. (SCNR) Ciao, Kili ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haske

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal (was: Compilers)

2008-11-29 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:31:52AM -0800, Don Stewart wrote: > > I don't see any advantage in Cabal, except that a .cabal file > > provides some metadata and dependency information that can help the > > build. > > And we have tools to automate the packaging of cabal-specified code. > So for exampl

[Haskell-cafe] Cabal (was: Compilers)

2008-11-29 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:45PM -0800, Jason Dagit wrote: > Personally, I look at it this way. Both build systems have different > advantages that the other cannot provide but they are not mutually > exclusive. I don't see any advantage in Cabal, except that a .cabal file provides some metada

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Compilers

2008-11-26 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:35:01PM +, Andrew Coppin wrote: > >It is a fork of the JHC compiler, which should be easier to look up. > >There is also Hugs, as you mentioned. In addition, you may want to > >look at YHC and NHC. > > Yeah, the "implementations" page on the Wiki basically says tha

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-29 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:11:22PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: > To my mind, the benefit is negligible, because: > > Then we still have OpenBSD users. > > means we can't drop GHC 6.6 support. Also, note that Lenny has 6.8, > and it is scheduled to become stable Real Soon Now. Ok, it all depen

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-28 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:11:53AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > Debian is nice in some ways and it's really great that stable lives up > to its name, but I am sad that Debian has such old software for so > long. It's this reason that has always forced me to run testing and > pull packages from

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [darcs-users] Poll: Do you need to be able to build darcs from source on GHC 6.6?

2008-10-27 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:24:31PM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote: > I would like to find out if any darcs users who build from the source > are still using ghc 6.6? > > If you are such a user, please let me know. Yep. OpenBSD is still at ghc-6.6. Ciao, Kili -- Trust your brain, not the mach

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.1.0 (corrected!)

2008-10-09 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 05:11:17PM +0100, Eric Kow wrote: > This is a correction to my previous announcement. I had misgrepped the > ChangeLog. There are only 20 bug fixes and 7 new features since 2.0.2. Nevermind. It's way better than 2.0.2, anyway ;-) Ciao, Kili -- the story in pthr

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell compiler on NetBSD amd64

2008-05-11 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 03:03:39PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > I've to admit that the ghc port for OpenBSD is a little bit weird ;-) > > > > (but not as weird as my current work on ghc-6.8 for OpenBSD) > > What's your plan for the OpenBSD port, Kili? * Proper bootstrapping from .hc files. * T

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell compiler on NetBSD amd64

2008-05-10 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:36:43PM -0700, Donn Cave wrote: > > I wonder if it is still possible to use the .hc files already generated > > for the OpenBSD/amd64 port, and use those to do the port to > > NetBSD/amd64. > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/ghc/ > > That

Re: [Haskell-cafe] haskell compiler on NetBSD amd64

2008-05-10 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:13:16PM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > I wonder if it is still possible to use the .hc files already generated > for the OpenBSD/amd64 port, and use those to do the port to > NetBSD/amd64. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/lang/ghc/ If nobody tries,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] The range operator

2008-04-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:58:06PM +0100, PR Stanley wrote: > [x, y..z] > What's the role of x? It's the first argument passed to enumFromThenTo. See sections 3.10 and 6.3.4 of the Haskell report. Ciao, Kili -- There's a limit to how many buttons a shirt should have. --

Re: [Haskell-cafe] humor

2004-07-30 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 04:41:24PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I met Java some time ago, I said to myself: "Java is a great language > to write IDEs for the Java language". > > Now that I'm looking for Haskell source code (perhpas that there is another > way to learn a language than to

Re: Beginner: error when using multiple where stmts in hugs98

2000-12-01 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Guy Lapalme wrote: > this explanation is very good but the real confusion comes from the fact > that probably there were some TAB characters in the original program. In the > text editor used for typing the program the tabs stops were 4 spaces apart > as they are usually nowad