Re: [Haskell-cafe] lambdabot hoogle

From: Jacek Generowicz Sent: May 25, 2011 2:45 PM

On 2011 May 25, at 17:42, Gwern Branwen wrote:

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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jacek Generowicz wrote:

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I've already stumbled across mueval and hoogle as things that need to be installed separately before the full advertized features of lambdabot work.

With this experience under my belt and the benefit of hindsight, I vaguely, almost, kinda, maybe see how I could have guessed that the stubborn response "A Hoogle error occurred." to any hoogle command in lambdabot, means that I need to install hoogle locally:

'hoogle ...' --> "A Hoogle error occurred." ==> install hoogle.

But how on earth was I supposed to guess that in order to make 'check' work, the package to install was 'mueval', given that the error message was "Terminated"?

'check ...' --> "Terminated" ==> install mueval.

You weren't really meant to - lambdabot isn't exactly meant for anyone who won't look at the source when something goes wrong.

Understood. Fair enough.

I feel a bit guilty about spamming the list with all my stupid problems: I would prefer to find my own way around, but if I had to dive in and rummage around the source for every problem that I encounter, I would not get very far.

I'm not particularly interested in lambdabot myself, but this seems like a reasonable conversation for this list, and the sort of thing that's nice to have recorded in the mailing list archives - and hopefully folded back into appropriate package descriptions and wiki pages. I wonder a few quick greps for error messages in the source code might have turned up something useful without too much trouble, but from skimming messages it seems your efforts have been at least as much as can reasonably be expected for installing a cabal package without big giant disclaimers. Brandon