On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 19:12 +0100, Cetin Sert wrote:
1) Can anyone tell me how I can build Yi or point me to a binary release of that editor?
I tried to follow the instructions on http://www.nobugs.org/developer/yi/building.html but got a missing component error each time.
You need ghc-6.8.2, the latest yi from darcs darcs get http://code.haskell.org/yi as well as the latest version of fingertree and vty or gtk. If you have further question please use the yi-devel mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel). Note though, that yi is not ready for regular use, yet. But, of course, contributions are accepted anytime.
2) When if ever is Data.ByteString going to be the default string representation in GHC?
Not anytime soon (if ever). It's not guaranteed to be faster in any case, but its generally faster for bigger inputs. If you're worried about literals, that's not a problem anymore. You can just use: myErrorMsg = "Oops!" :: ByteString
I study computational linguistics and plan to switch to Haskell in the near future, that is once I get to grips with the language and the whole new thought model one has to develop as an imperative programmer.
Good luck!