April 2014 - Haskell-Cafe

Docker image for GHC 7.8.2
by Konstantine Rybnikov 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

For people like me who would like to try out 7.8.2, but don't want to make new creative ways of making your system be able to handle multiple ghc/cabal/etc, I created a docker image. Source code, instructions how to build image yourself, or just pull/run it are here: https://bitbucket.org/k_bx/docker-ghc-7.8 Thanks. // I will make a github mirror once hg-git is fixed back by new dulwich lib release soon

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Dependencies (was Re: Patches for (abandoned?) pcre-light)
by Doug Burke 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

On Apr 12, 2014 9:10 PM, "Nikolay Amiantov" <nikoamia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Also, the second (unrelated) question would be: how can I find a package which depends on it in my project? I have found no way to dump a dependency tree in cabal. Is this the information that you want? http://packdeps.haskellers.com/ http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse Doug

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Feedback/Ideas for a Master Thesis about creating a Querying Tool for Hackage
by Victor Nithander 13 Apr '14

13 Apr '14

Hi, My name is Victor Nithander and I am currently doing my Master Thesis at the Computer Science and Engineering department at Chalmers in Gothenburg and would like to ask you for some help. My Master Thesis is about creating a querying tool for Hackage written in Haskell and I would like to know what kind of features you would like the querying tool to have. My plan is to design and implement an embedded language for queries to be expressed in and then implement a backend which accordingly takes care of those queries. I then plan to packet the tool as a package using Cabal and upload it to Hackage. Any feedback/ideas on features or other things about the tool would be greatly appreciated as I want to make a tool which benefits the community as much as possible. Examples of queries I'm thinking of to implement is: - Which language features (such as typeclass instances) does a certain package use? - How many packages uses a certain language feature? - Which packages does a certain package depend on? - Which packages depends on a certain package? Of course, this in no way limits what other type of queries could be made. I will also post this at the Haskell Section of reddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/, sorry for the redundancy. Feel free to respond to this either at this mailing list, at reddit, or as a personal email at nithande(a)student.chalmers.se though I think the best would be to have an open discussion about it. Thanks in advance! / Victor

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Seems a wrong implementation of Graham Scan in Haskell Wiki
by Yang Leo 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Ah so that’s how a mailing list works.. Sorry for my stupidness... On Apr 12, 2014, at 1:08 AM, Kim-Ee Yeoh <ky3(a)atamo.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Yang Leo <jeremyrobturtle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I’ve updated the Haskell wiki now. I haven’t learnt how to do unit tests in Haskell yet, > any tests on my implementations would be welcomed. > > wikipage: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Graham_Scan_Implementation > > Would you mind forwarding to the haskell-cafe mailing list as well? > > So that everyone else is kept updated? > > -- Kim-Ee

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Haddock markup questions
by Christiaan Baaij 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Hello list, I have two questions regarding proper markup for my haddock documentation. I'm using the latest released haddock, version 2.14.2. The first is about deprecation pragma's and operators usint '<' and '>' I have the following deprecation message: > {-# DEPRECATED Comp "Use 'Applicative' interface and ('<^>') instead" #-} Haddock however generates the following: http://christiaanb.github.io/clash-prelude/CLaSH-Prelude.html#t:Comp Where 'Applicative' gets a proper link to the applicative type class... but '<^>' is translated to a link to '^'... which is a page that doesn't exists. I can get haddock to not generate a link using: > > {-# DEPRECATED Comp "Use 'Applicative' interface and ('\\<^\\>') instead" #-} But that's unwanted, as those backslashes show up in GHC(i) messages. So: how do I get haddock to not parse my '<^>' operator as a link/URL? My second question is again about getting links to operators in general. If you take a look at, e.g., http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.7.0.0/docs/Control-Applicative.ht… You can see that proper documentation links are generated to the '<*>' and such operators. However, if you take a look at the documention I tried to generate for my library: http://christiaanb.github.io/clash-prelude/CLaSH-Signal-Implicit.html#v:-60… You can see that the referenced '^>' operator does not get a proper link. So my question: how do I get haddock to create proper links for my referenced operators. I should note that I create haddock docs using 'cabal haddock' instead of calling haddock directly. Best regards, Christiaan

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[ANN] Yi 0.8
by Mateusz Kowalczyk 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

We're pleased to announced Yi 0.8! While this isn't a huge release, there are some nice fixes and breaking changes compared to 0.7.0. Please note that 0.7.1 and 0.7.2 were just maintenance releases so these are lumped under this announcement. What I think is most notable is removal of Yi.Prelude, dropping GHC 7.4 support, making Yi work with GHC 7.8.1 (and soon 7.8.2 when that comes out sometime today), moving from data-accessor to lens and finally dropping the dead front-ends. Please visit us at https://github.com/yi-editor/yi Relevant part of the CHANGELOG: 0.8.0 ----- * This release works with GHC 7.8.1. * And doesn't work with GHC 7.4. * Lens is now used instead of data-accessor. Migration was mostly mechanical, patches for more idiomatic lens usage are welcome. * Yi.Prelude was getting complaints over the years so it's now gone. * Commandline flag for choosing config directory now works. * Vte and Cocoa (issue #481) frontends that were abandoned for years are removed. If you want to revive these or make new frontends (Qt, EFL, SDL, threepenny-gui, etc), patches are welcome! * Test files no longer make case sensitive filesystems mad (issue #458). * Yi no longer eats (20 x filesize) memory when opening a file. * Other bugfixes and usability tweaks here and there. Emacs-specific changes: * Dynamic reconfiguring yi with "M-x reload" now works (issue #515). * Cancel incremental search on cursor movement/return (issue #499). * Remove binding to cabal configure from emacs keymap (issue #522). * Bind M-{ and M-} to jump between paragraphs (issue #106). * Prompt the user for comment style when it's missing (issue #413). Vim2-specific changes: * C-n completion now uses words from all open buffer instead of just current one. * Introduced :buffer, :buffers and :bdelete commands and C-^ and C-6 normal mode bindings. * Meta modifier is now available for use in Vim2 bindings. * :s(ubstitute) now works with delimiters other than '/' (issue #461). * Introduced :cabal command. * More tests. 0.7.2 ----- * This is a maintenance release, upper bound set for QuickCheck. 0.7.1 ----- * This is a maintenance release, yi.cabal got cleaned up a little and dependencies got bumped, some problematic upper bounds were removed. Thanks! -- Mateusz K.

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Hackage upload log
by Michael Snoyman 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

There used to be a log of Hackage uploads available at [1], but "it's just not here" anymore. Has that content moved to a different URL? Or is there some new way to get that information? I'd like to know the upload dates of every package. I could definitely screenscrape fro the date on the package listing pages, but I was hoping for something a bit more elegant. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/log

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] package 'permutation' no longer compiles and the maintainer is uncontactable
by Patrick Perry 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

It's fine with me if Sophie takes over maintenance of the "permutation" package. On Friday, April 11, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Patrick Perry wrote: > Hi Sophie, > > It's fine with me if you take over maintenance of the package. > > > Patrick > > On Friday, April 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Carter Schonwald wrote: > > > Ccing him now > > Get his ok and I'll give you uploaded acls > > > > On Friday, April 11, 2014, Sophie Taylor <sophie(a)traumapony.org (mailto:sophie@traumapony.org)> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > The permutation package no longer compiles due to the change in comparison primops in 7.8.1. Unfortunately, the maintainer Patrick Perry no longer appears to be contactable (the email address bounces) and so cannot submit a patch. > > > > > > I have a patch I wish to upload and according to https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package > > > > > > I have to state my intention to take over the maintainence of the package, so yeah, this is me doing that. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sophie Taylor (spacekitteh) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Seems a wrong implementation of Graham Scan in Haskell Wiki
by Kim-Ee Yeoh 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Yang Leo <jeremyrobturtle(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I don't have the account on Haskell wiki. How can I get an account on it > so I can contribute? Look here: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellWiki:Contributing -- Kim-Ee

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package 'permutation' no longer compiles and the maintainer is uncontactable
by Sophie Taylor 11 Apr '14

11 Apr '14

Hi, The permutation package no longer compiles due to the change in comparison primops in 7.8.1. Unfortunately, the maintainer Patrick Perry no longer appears to be contactable (the email address bounces) and so cannot submit a patch. I have a patch I wish to upload and according to https://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Taking_over_a_package I have to state my intention to take over the maintainence of the package, so yeah, this is me doing that. Thanks, Sophie Taylor (spacekitteh)

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