Comments for Arch Linux and Haskell http://archhaskell.wordpress.com News about Haskell on Arch Linux Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on GHC 7.6.1 moved to main repo by magnusth http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/ghc-7-6-1-moved-to-main-repo/#comment-488 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:52:37 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=328#comment-488 @jiuren: Version 0.10.0.0 comes with GHC 7.6, so no need to compile it yourself. Unless of course you are developing on bytestring itself.

]]> Comment on GHC 7.6.1 moved to main repo by jiuren http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/ghc-7-6-1-moved-to-main-repo/#comment-487 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:59:28 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=328#comment-487 What about bytestring?
I can’t get it compiled with ghc 7.6.

]]> Comment on ThreadScope for Haskell now in AUR by Andriy Drozdyuk (@andriyko) http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/threadscope-for-haskell-now-in-aur/#comment-420 Thu, 17 May 2012 16:30:59 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=289#comment-420 That’s great, unfortunately I am getting an error when trying to install it. See below:

Configuring ghc-events-0.4.0.0…
Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing:
mtl >=1.1 && ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting…
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build haskell-ghc-events.
==> Restart building haskell-ghc-events ? [y/N]
==> ——————————————-
==>
==> Restart building threadscope ? [y/N]
==> ————————————

]]> Comment on Arch Haskell under new management :-) by magnusth http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/arch-haskell-under-new-management/#comment-338 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:39:29 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-338 Thanks Yngve.

Are you aware of [haskell]? The details are available at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_User_Repositories

]]> Comment on Arch Haskell under new management :-) by Yngve I. Levinsen http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/arch-haskell-under-new-management/#comment-336 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:13:07 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-336 Very impressive work! Would it be possible to create some bundles on AUR? It takes quite a lot of “do you want to edit PKGBUILD, do you want to continue build x, do you want to vote for x…” when building from AUR (using yaourt). Downloading a PKGBUILD bundle to get the central packages in my local binary repository would be very nice.

]]> Comment on CLasH: Haskell to VHDL compiler in AUR by Christiaan http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/clash-haskell-to-vhdl-compiler-in-aur/#comment-254 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:02:41 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-254 A colleague stumbled upon this blog while google’ing, so sorry for the late reply.

The basic premise why using functional languages (like Haskell) to describe hardware is a good idea is the following:
- Combinational hardware can be directly described by a mathematical model/equation.
- Functional languages are very good as (de-)composing mathematical functions.

What is also important is that the order in which a functional language is evaluated does not matter as long as data-dependencies are respected. This means we can very directly translate a Haskell function into a set of concurrent VHDL statements; and as a result that everything that can be executed in parallel will happen in parallel on the hardware. We translate then translate function applications to component instantiations, which again exploits all the parallelism that is available in the original Haskell description. More elaborate explanations can be found in the published papers and the master theses of me and Matthijs (all found on the clash website).

Christiaan

]]> Comment on Arch Haskell under new management :-) by magnusth http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/arch-haskell-under-new-management/#comment-214 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:50:13 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-214 True, but there is one more thing that you get out of AUR, an API for searching the set of available packages. So what I think we need to address is discoverability. I think archhaskell/habs contains a few too many packages to force a complete download just to do a search. Sure, caching in the client is a solution, but I feel it’s more of a band-aid rather than a proper solution.

]]> Comment on Arch Haskell under new management :-) by fbstj http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/arch-haskell-under-new-management/#comment-213 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:01:14 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=305#comment-213 All that you’re getting from AUR is the PKGBUILD and *.install files which are in archhaskel/habs? You can get the plaintext/raw versions directly from the repo by http://github.com/archhaskell/habs/raw/master/she/PKGBUILD for example. So it shouldnt be hard to make a tool to download them and then building it.

]]> Comment on CLasH: Haskell to VHDL compiler in AUR by Nadav http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/clash-haskell-to-vhdl-compiler-in-aur/#comment-191 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:59:27 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=293#comment-191 Good Job! I am also a researcher in the field of High-Level Synthesis (compiling high-level languages into low level languages such as verilog or VHDL).

The biggest challenge in high-level synthesis is exposing parallelism. Converting any software to a simple state machine is trivial. Synthesizing programs which are partially parallel is more difficult. I wonder what is it about Haskel that makes it an ideal candidate for this.

Nadav

]]> Comment on berp: an implementation of Python 3, now in AUR (compiler and interpreter) by augustss http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/berp-an-implementation-of-python-3-now-in-aur-compiler-and-interpreter/#comment-188 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:13:06 +0000 http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/?p=291#comment-188 >>> fac(100.0)
berp.exe: panic! (the ‘impossible’ happened)
(GHC version 6.12.3 for i386-unknown-mingw32):
berp unsupported. 100.0

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