lambdabot setup

6 Feb 2008

      Dear, lazy programmers,

Please let me know the proper place to report lambdabot bugs,
and feel free to ignore the rest of message.

Are you still reading? In this case you may want to know that
*** I've successfully installed lambdabot with GHC 6.9! :) ***
Kudos to Cale & the IRC crowd for making my day
[http://tunes.org/~nef/logs/haskell/08.02.04].

Boring part:

  $ darcs get http://code.haskell.org/lambdabot
  $ cd lambdabot
  $ runhaskell Setup configure --prefix=$HOME --user
  $ runhaskell Setup build
  $ touch LICENSE  # see the patch attached
  $ runhaskell Setup install

Interesting part:

  $ lambdabot -e 'hoogle map'
  Initialising plugins ...........Plugin.Djinn: couldn't find djinn binary
  ...........................sending message to bogus server:
IrcMessage {msgServer = "freenode", msgLBName = "urk!<outputmessage>",
msgPrefix = "", msgCommand = "NAMES", msgParams = [""]}
  .................. done.
  A Hoogle error occured.
  Exception: all servers detached
  exception:
  State/seen: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

  $ hoogle map
  Could not find hoogle database, looked for: hoogle.txt

In order to make `hoogle' binary usable, one should copy `hoogle.txt'
file to "$(dirname $(which hoogle))/" directory:

  $ cp State/hoogle.txt ~/bin/  # FIXME
  $ hoogle map
  [...success...]

To my believe, it's a package's responsibility to copy data files to
proper locations (during `runhaskell Setup install' step).

And hoogle _plugin_ still doesn't work though.

  $ lambdabot
  Initialising plugins ...........Plugin.Djinn: couldn't find djinn binary
  ...........................sending message to bogus server:
IrcMessage {msgServer = "freenode", msgLBName = "urk!<outputmessage>",
msgPrefix = "", msgCommand = "NAMES", msgParams = [""]}
  .................. done.
  lambdabot> hoogle map
  A Hoogle error occured.
  lambdabot> lambdabot: user error (<eof>)

  Exception: all servers detached

Thank you.

--
vvv

PS:
Tue Feb  5 18:38:55 EET 2008  "Valery V. Vorotyntsev" <valery.vv@gmail.com>
  * `LICENSE' file added

Tue Feb  5 18:37:12 EET 2008  "Valery V. Vorotyntsev" <valery.vv@gmail.com>
  * lambdabot.cabal: add `build-type' to make Cabal happy