On 2008.05.09 16:23:03 +0200, Chris Eidhof scribbled 0.6K characters:

Hey everyone,

I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable from my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but comments or improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by downloading the twitter-package from hackage.

In order to get it to work, create a file "~/.twitter" with the contents username:password, and you should be set.

The source code isn't polished yet, but it makes heavy use of the new curl, json and xml libraries from Galois, so it might be interesting to browse the source.

-chris

For those interested, the links is http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/twitter-0.1. Hackage reports a build-failure, but I think that particular problem is because of Curl's Haddock failure. That said, I did run into a build problem: --- gwern@localhost:4089~/twitter-0.1>cabal-install twitter [ 3:30PM] 'twitter-0.1' is cached. Configuring twitter-0.1... Preprocessing executables for twitter-0.1... Building twitter-0.1... ./Twitter.hs:3:7: Could not find module `GUI.Terminal': Use -v to see a list of the files searched for. cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: twitter-0.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was: exit: ExitFailure 1 --- Is GUI.Terminal some special Mac haskell package I wouldn't have on Linux? -- gwern Retinal NACSI Global Branch RUOP Team Embassy presidential Kerry SETA

chris:

Hey everyone,

I was tired of all those graphical Twitter clients that aren't usable from my Terminal, so I wrote my own. It's still very much alpha, but comments or improvements are more than welcome. You can install it by downloading the twitter-package from hackage.

In order to get it to work, create a file "~/.twitter" with the contents username:password, and you should be set.

The source code isn't polished yet, but it makes heavy use of the new curl, json and xml libraries from Galois, so it might be interesting to browse the source.

Great! Perhaps we could use it as an annotated tutorial for the libs? Put the source on the wiki with comments? -- Don