July 2018 - Glasgow-haskell-users

[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-alpha2 available
by Ben Gamari 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

The GHC development team is pleased to announce the second alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha2 This alpha fixes many of the bugs reported in the first alpha and brings many of the core libraries to their (hopefully) final release versions. Unfortunately, the documentation troubles affecting the first alpha haven't quite been resolved in this release. Consequently you will again find there is no documentation uploaded. However, let us know if anything else is amiss. Thanks for your help! Cheers, - Ben

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Final Call for Talks -- Haskell Implementors' Workshop
by Joachim Breitner 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Call for Contributions ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors’ Workshop https://icfp18.sigplan.org/track/hiw-2018-papers Co-located with ICFP 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, US https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2018 Important dates --------------- Proposal Deadline: Friday, 20 July, 2018 Notification: Friday, 3 August, 2018 Workshop: Sunday, 23 September, 2018 Keynote speaker --------------- This year, the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop is proud to present Rahul Muttineni as the keynote speaker. Rahul brough the joys of Haskell to the realm of Java by creating the Eta programming language. Title: Let's Go Mainstream with Eta! Eta is a fork of GHC that focuses on three core principles: user experience, performance, and safety. We'll discuss how we used these principles to guide the re-implementation of the GHC runtime and code generator on the JVM. Moreover, will also cover the inner workings of the FFI and the typechecker support we added for subtyping to make it smooth to interact with Java libraries. Finally, we'll round out with a look at where Eta is headed and how Eta and GHC can collaborate in the future. About the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop ---------------------------------------- The 10th Haskell Implementors’ Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2018 this year in St. Louis. It is a forum for people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. There will be no published proceedings. The workshop will be informal and interactive, with open spaces in the timetable and room for ad-hoc discussion, demos and lightning talks. Scope and Target Audience ------------------------- It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop from the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2018. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop will have no proceedings – although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data available with the consent of the speakers. The Implementors’ Workshop is an ideal place to describe a Haskell extension, describe works-in-progress, demo a new Haskell-related tool, or even propose future lines of Haskell development. Members of the wider Haskell community encouraged to attend the workshop – we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. Students working with Haskell are specially encouraged to share their work. The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics that people feel we’ve missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn’t fit exactly into one of these buckets: * Compilation techniques * Language features and extensions * Type system implementation * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking * Virtual machines and run-time systems * Libraries and tools for development or deployment Talks ----- We invite proposals from potential speakers for talks and demonstrations. We are aiming for 20-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 300 words. Submissions can be made via HotCRP at https://icfp-hiw18.hotcrp.com/ until July 20th (anywhere on earth). We will also have lightning talks session. These have been very well received in recent years, and we aim to increase the time available to them. Lightning talks be ~7mins and are scheduled on the day of the workshop. Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. Program Committee ----------------- * Edwin Brady (University of St. Andrews, UK) * Joachim Breitner – chair (University of Pennsylvania) * Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) * Michael Hanus (Kiel University) * Roman Leshchinsky (Facebook) * Niki Vazou (University of Maryland) Contact ------- * Joachim Breitner <joachim(a)cis.upenn.edu> -- Joachim Breitner Post-Doctoral researcher http://cis.upenn.edu/~joachim

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FYI
by Doaitse Swierstra 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

> Begin doorgestuurd bericht: > > Van: Job Vranish <jvranish(a)gmail.com> > Onderwerp: Antw.: as far as I can see > Datum: 12 juli 2018 om 3:17:23 CEST > Aan: doaitse(a)swierstra.net > > Wow thanks! > > I’ve updated both. Thanks for letting me know and your help fixing it :) > > - Job > >> On Jul 11, 2018, at 4:44 PM, Doaitse Swierstra <doaitse(a)swierstra.net> wrote: >> >> Dear Job, >> >> I made lenses compatible with the new version of GHC. can you put it on hackage if you approve and update the github too. It still contains an older version. >> >> Best, thanks, >> Doaitse Swierstra >> >> <src-26><lenses.cabal> >

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I discovered that the uu-options package does not compile due to a dependency on lenses, which does not compile with GHC 8.4
by Doaitse Swierstra 12 Jul '18

12 Jul '18

In case you want to try here is an updated lenses package. Best, Doaitse PS: I contacted Job (the author) in order to get things updated

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Testing that packages still compile
by Sébastien Hinderer 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Dear all, I am part of the OCaml development team. As you may know, OCaml has a package manager a bit similar to cabal whose name is opam. One of my colleagues spends quite a lot of time trying to make sure that packages still compile with a new version of the compiler, when we release it. When a package does not compile any longer, it seems it is a highly non-trivial task to figure out what exactly is broken: is it the package itself which has been broken by a change in the compiler, or is it one of its dependencies. I am assuming the same kind of problems occur with Haskell and am wondering how they are handle. Has there been something published on this kind of problem? Any pointer, comment or contact appreciated. Best wishes, Sébastien.

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2nd Call for Talks -- Haskell Implementors' Workshop
by Joachim Breitner 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

Call for Contributions ACM SIGPLAN Haskell Implementors’ Workshop https://icfp18.sigplan.org/track/hiw-2018-papers Co-located with ICFP 2018 St. Louis, Missouri, US https://conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-2018 Important dates --------------- Proposal Deadline: Friday, 20 July, 2018 Notification: Friday, 3 August, 2018 Workshop: Sunday, 23 September, 2018 Keynote speaker --------------- This year, the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop is proud to present Rahul Muttineni as the keynote speaker. Rahul brough the joys of Haskell to the realm of Java by creating the Eta programming language. Title: Let's Go Mainstream with Eta! Eta is a fork of GHC that focuses on three core principles: user experience, performance, and safety. We'll discuss how we used these principles to guide the re-implementation of the GHC runtime and code generator on the JVM. Moreover, will also cover the inner workings of the FFI and the typechecker support we added for subtyping to make it smooth to interact with Java libraries. Finally, we'll round out with a look at where Eta is headed and how Eta and GHC can collaborate in the future. About the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop ---------------------------------------- The 10th Haskell Implementors’ Workshop is to be held alongside ICFP 2018 this year in St. Louis. It is a forum for people involved in the design and development of Haskell implementations, tools, libraries, and supporting infrastructure, to share their work and discuss future directions and collaborations with others. Talks and/or demos are proposed by submitting an abstract, and selected by a small program committee. There will be no published proceedings. The workshop will be informal and interactive, with open spaces in the timetable and room for ad-hoc discussion, demos and lightning talks. Scope and Target Audience ------------------------- It is important to distinguish the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop from the Haskell Symposium which is also co-located with ICFP 2018. The Haskell Symposium is for the publication of Haskell-related research. In contrast, the Haskell Implementors’ Workshop will have no proceedings – although we will aim to make talk videos, slides and presented data available with the consent of the speakers. The Implementors’ Workshop is an ideal place to describe a Haskell extension, describe works-in-progress, demo a new Haskell-related tool, or even propose future lines of Haskell development. Members of the wider Haskell community encouraged to attend the workshop – we need your feedback to keep the Haskell ecosystem thriving. Students working with Haskell are specially encouraged to share their work. The scope covers any of the following topics. There may be some topics that people feel we’ve missed, so by all means submit a proposal even if it doesn’t fit exactly into one of these buckets: * Compilation techniques * Language features and extensions * Type system implementation * Concurrency and parallelism: language design and implementation * Performance, optimisation and benchmarking * Virtual machines and run-time systems * Libraries and tools for development or deployment Talks ----- We invite proposals from potential speakers for talks and demonstrations. We are aiming for 20-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions and changeovers. We want to hear from people writing compilers, tools, or libraries, people with cool ideas for directions in which we should take the platform, proposals for new features to be implemented, and half-baked crazy ideas. Please submit a talk title and abstract of no more than 300 words. Submissions can be made via HotCRP at https://icfp-hiw18.hotcrp.com/ until July 20th (anywhere on earth). We will also have lightning talks session. These have been very well received in recent years, and we aim to increase the time available to them. Lightning talks be ~7mins and are scheduled on the day of the workshop. Suggested topics for lightning talks are to present a single idea, a work-in-progress project, a problem to intrigue and perplex Haskell implementors, or simply to ask for feedback and collaborators. Program Committee ----------------- * Edwin Brady (University of St. Andrews, UK) * Joachim Breitner – chair (University of Pennsylvania) * Ben Gamari (Well-Typed LLP) * Michael Hanus (Kiel University) * Roman Leshchinsky (Facebook) * Niki Vazou (University of Maryland) Contact ------- * Joachim Breitner <joachim(a)cis.upenn.edu> -- Joachim Breitner Post-Doctoral researcher http://cis.upenn.edu/~joachim

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[ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.6.1-alpha1 available
by Ben Gamari 03 Jul '18

03 Jul '18

The GHC development team is pleased to announce the first alpha release leading up to GHC 8.6.1. The usual release artifacts are available from https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.6.1-alpha1 This is the first release (partially) generated using our new CI infrastructure. One known issue is that the haddock documentation is currently unavailable. This will be fixed in the next alpha release. Do let us know if you spot anything else amiss. As always, do let us know if you encounter any trouble in the course of testing. Thanks for your help! Cheers, - Ben

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